Paper Puppets

A lab report by Michael Chan

Part A. Actuating DC motors

Link to a video of your virbation motor

Vibration Motor

Part B. Actuating Servo motors

Part 1. Connect the Servo to your breadboard

a. Which color wires correspond to power, ground and signal?

Red is the power, brown is the ground and ornage is the signal.

Part 2. Connect the Servo to your Arduino

a. Which Arduino pin should the signal line of the servo be attached to?

It should be on pin 9 per the myservo.attach line of code.

b. What aspects of the Servo code control angle or speed?

The angle is controlled by the intialization of the for loops. The 180 to 0 tells the servo to rotate from 0 to 180 degrees. The steps in the for loop indicate how fast it should change angle, in this case it is set at 1 degree.

Part C. Integrating input and output

Include a photo/movie of your raw circuit in action.

Raw Circuit

Part D. Paper puppet

a. Make a video of your proto puppet.

Paper Puppet

Part E. Make it your own

a. Make a video of your final design.

I attempted to assemble the countdown paper puppet, however i was unable to get good enough contact with the screw and paper to make the paper actually rotate around and coutndown.

/* Sweep
 by BARRAGAN <http://barraganstudio.com>
 This example code is in the public domain.

 modified 8 Nov 2013
 by Scott Fitzgerald
 http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Sweep
*/

#include <Servo.h>

Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo
// twelve servo objects can be created on most boards

int pos = 0;    // variable to store the servo position

void setup() {
  myservo.attach(9);  // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object
}

void loop() {
  for (pos = 0; pos <= 180; pos += 1) { // goes from 0 degrees to 180 degrees
    // in steps of 1 degree
    myservo.write(pos);              // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'
    delay(15);                       // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position
  }
  for (pos = 180; pos >= 0; pos -= 1) { // goes from 180 degrees to 0 degrees
    myservo.write(pos);              // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'
    delay(15);                       // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position
  }
}