User:Agashi5859/ENES-100/project 0

Week0 Preferences
1.)Core Control 2.)Access 3.)ComboLock

Week1 Narrative
0/0/0 .. nothing to grade --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 18:44, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Week2 Narrative
Combolock problem: gears would not line up. Decided to print a 3-D print a gear. I found a openscad template that generates gears. Using the OpenSCD I designed a gear to interlock the current gear. Count the number of teeth and using a micrometer I got the exact measurements of the gear I needed to clone. But I ran into another problem. After the first gear started printing I had to cancel the print. I noticed the center hole was too big. Revising my work I figured out that the center hole dimensions were in terms of radius not diameter so I took half my current value to get the radius. Using the new information I then began printing my 2nd gear. Here is a video of my 2nd print.

10/10/10 ... great work in the physical world, but I doubt any team mate could replicate your success above. Your documentation goal is to ask a team mate to read this and then replicate your success. For example "Using the software" refers to what software package? I know and you know which software package, but the audience of your narrative is a team mate, not me. There is no RANT ... no Next Steps are implied. This requires a conversation with me which is much more expensive than writing here. And the openscad software did frustrate you, but I see none of that mentioned above. Have you forgotten ? ... Have you decided that everyone else in the world must suffer the same pain you did in using it? --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 14:49, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Week3 Narrative
0/0/0 .. nothing to grade --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 15:12, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Week4 Narrative
The new interlocks with the combolock gear. But another problem persisted. Gear would spin on the shaft of the motor. Quickest way to solve the problem was to use crazy glue and glue the gear on both sides. After the glue dried I tested the gears by putting force on it. Gear stays strongly attached to the motors shaft as shown in the video above.

So I tried to upload a basic code to the Arduino (blink code). The code would not upload to the Arduino. However, this step eliminated the combolock code as a source for potential error. So I knew that the Ardiuno was at fault because it wasn't even excepting a basic code. Then I ask John (the lab aid) to switch the arduino and he provided me with a new one. Trying the basic code on the new Arduino proved to be successful. Arduino is blinking. Using new Arduino I tired to upload the ComboLock code from above. But again I ran into another problem. Received following. However, I figured out how to fix the code. Here is a tutorial on how to fix the "AF Motor does not name a specific type" code. Once code uploaded to Arduino. I shot a video on the ComboLock in action. But once again another problem persist. Soleniod is engaging perfectly fine but motor will not make a full rotation in any direction. Next step is to find out if the problem is with the code itself or the wiring of the stepper motor.

Very good ... I like the photos, the code collapse. The screen shots should be done with Alt Prntsc rather than a digital camera. Learn to do this. Don't upload any more blurry photos. I am worried that arduino's are being burned. I gave you an arduino that was working. Now it is not. Need to test the stepper motor separate from the soleiod from now on. 10/10/30 --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 15:31, 11 March 2014 (UTC)