Week 16 | Final Project Update 2/5

Since I started working on this at home, I left my 9v battery on campus. I used my laptop to power up the motor and it seemed to be working fine.

However, after taking the video the motor seemed to not be speeding up when I moved the potentiometer. When I get back to campus, I plan on hooking up the battery and using that as the power source, hopefully the speed increases.

For now I'm following the zoetrope guidelines found in the arduino project book. I started building the pinwheel exercise as a reference, but I plan on buying card stock paper in other colors and tracing the template. My goal for now is to have this moving and working. I am still trying to figure out a way to enclose the wires and the arduino board. My challenge is going to be figuring out how to hold the motor upright in place with some sort of stand...