Tuesday, December 8, 2009

FINAL UPDATE

TWO days of head scratchin' and help-askin', two days of once cutting after twice measuring: the mechanism started to come to fruition.


After the machine was done, the biggest problem for me was interfacing the arduino with the motor. I had no clue. A TRANSISTOR. I thought I was hitting a brick wall, but the transistor was the simple answer that worked almost right away. That never happens. It was incredible.
Here's how I figured it out:
All in all I was pleasantly surprised by the serendipitous nature of this project and all my stress was unfounded. Hopefully everything goes well tomorrow.

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