User:Dragonatom4/ENES-100/project 1

Week0 Preferences
''Your class negotiated 5 or 6 projects to do the rest of the semester. Please rank, in order of preference, your highest through lowest project names.''

Week1 Narrative
This week I received the chassis to the project Fido. The goal is to make the apparatus follow us. I am going to find out the type of battery used for this project. The motors of the car's are going to be powered by the battery. Once I have the battery I will connect it to the car which will power it. The arduino then programs the whole car. I will also need infared sensors in order to make the car follow its target.

Week2 Narrative
This week I Found a battery that worked for the car. The battery still works because I powered an LED with it. Although the LED died a couple of seconds later. I later tried it on the arduino and it powered it. The car runs by a NiDc 9.6v battery. This battery is the same type the car needs but the output is different to the cars output so I used wires to connect the battery to the car in order for it to receive power. The arduino is also connected to the battery in order to power it. The motors of the car run through power so we need power to run the motor, this will be provided by the arduino. I will try to power the motor to the arduino to make it work without the use of a battery or wires.

Week3 Narrative
The motors are connected to the breadboard. There are two motors on the car and each motor has two wires, making a total of four wires. The motor that moves the car forward also moves it backwards. I found out that if one wire is plugged to power and the other is plugged to ground then it makes the car accelerate forward. If we switch the ports and do the opposite then the car reverses. On the other end of the car, the motor makes the car go left and right. It follows the same condition as the back wheels. What I need to do is program the arduino to switch the currents. I will need to use a motor shield for this because it can control the speed and direction of the car. If I can get this to work and run perfectly then I will move on to the sensors.

Week4 Narrative
The robot has an arduino motor shield attached to the arduimo now. This will allow the arduino to not only program the motors but run each motor efficiently. The front and back wires are plugged into the motor shield while thr arduino is getting its power from the pc. We m,sy need to add an external power source later. Now I will try to program the arduino torun with the shield so that the it will respond to the code.