Well the turnout was a little light for the Open Lab at the club this week. Michael did his Intro to Arduino session with a handful of people and it all went well. There were only a few Quad people so they joined in with the Open Lab projects also.
Then it was my turn. I think everyone that was there joined in and watched my presentation. I did bring materials if anyone wanted to build one for themselves but it was getting a little late so most people just took the instruction sheet home with them.
I covered the project from the start when I got the idea and some of the pitfalls I ran onto.
Attached are the sketches
Rocker_II_Sketches.zip- These are the sketches, calibrate and rocker.
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- Rocker Instructions.pdf
- This is a PFD of the instructions for this project. I printed it out on a single page, double sided.
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Some changes from last year:
I had manually calibrated the Servo for the display by writing a Sketch to move the servo and noting where I wanted the forward and back position and then trying a setting in the Rocker Sketch and then adjusting and trying again. This year I wrote a Calibration Sketch that allows you to select a position, Front, Center or Back, adjust that position and save it. It stores the settings in EEPROM on the Arduino and the Rocker Sketch reads them on booting. The calibration Sketch has a little menu and takes commands from your computer via the Serial Monitor. No more modifying the code for different setups.
Tim
