Over the last week on IT, I have continued to work through different Arduino challenges to further develop my understanding and knowledge in robotics. The first challenge I made this week was a servo motor controlled by a potentiometer, where the angle of the potentiometer controlled the angle the servo would be.
The second challenge I made during last week was a fan that was connected to a relay. This made it so that when a button was pressed, a rod inside the relay was flipped which connected the circuit with the fan, basically making the relay a flip-flop. This challenge is where most problems arose, I had burnt out an LED, as well as having problems connecting this to my computer to upload code. But all problems were solved after some googling and troubleshooting.
The third and final thing I worked on this week, was a remote controlled infra-red LED matrix. This was the most complex Arduino challenge yet, with over 20 different parts. This challenge also had the most code in it, with more than 130 lines of code. The idea behind this challenge is to send a signal, through the remote control, and change the display of the LED matrix. Although I haven’t yet tested the code with hardware, the only compiling error is that the library for the IR controller is not yet installed into the Arduino IDE, which should be an easy fix.
