October 2016 Page 2 of 3
I tried to create a small turtle that would wave it’s little flippers. It did not exactly work as planned. Firstly, it became a more abstract idea of…
I created a motorized tea bag dipper. I utilized a stepper motor and a sonar sensor to test when the tea cup was within 3 inches of the…
This wonderful invention is a box that launches a plane once you get too close to it. Whoosh. The plane is connected to a servo via rubber band…
This is a prototype for a drawing machine that uses one servo. The gears were successfully calibrated to work as intended but I have had trouble setting the…
img_8599 For this assignment, I created a BusyBox using laser cut gears and box. In essence, a BusyBox is an object/mechanism that appears to be doing work…
A basic set of eight small gears orbiting one larger gear powered by a stepper motor and controlled by an ultrasonic sensor. As the range of the sonar…
This is a simple pivot hinge created with laser cut acrylic which is used to open the lid when your hand gets near the infrared sensor.
I made a window system, which can be opened and closed by a servo motor. Here is the code, which is mostly copied from the servo motor exercise….
For tech demo three I designed, drafted and laser cut the parts of a car, and then attached a DC motor to a fan to propel it into…