Week 5# - Journal

Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you? (Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)

A small town Maquette with a carnival ride 🤹

which is a small eye i sculpted using foam clay, and it gets animated using micro servo motor and IR sensor, as I really into making animatronics.

so I went searching for the easiest animatronic and i found a very helping tutorial on youtube.

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Tool Chain⚒️:

Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?

Tinker CAD

to build and simulate my circuit before making it IRL

Glue gun

To glue cardboard

Jumper wires

to wire it all up

resistors

to protect LED lights

On\ Off switch

DC motor

I'll use it to simulate the movment

Small breadboard

for building temporary circuits

cardboard

To prototype the maquette

LED light

as i used it to make the armature for the eye

Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?

Design/Preparation Process:🌟

first things first we will build and simulate our curcit in Tinker CAD✨

start by listing all of your components

2.Now let's wire all of it together considering the polarity of every component

p.s. I wired all the rails with the 5v pin and the GND pin so that i can use any of 4 rails to wire

Now let's start Wiring 🌟

i used parallel type of circuit to get the very best performance of my components

So we will click code to get tis window

start by connecting the ground rail with the ground of power supply and the same with the positive, and I'll connect the other ground rail and the positive too, so that all rails are power connected

3.Then the on\off switch for the LEDs and tis is my final circuit so lets start simulate it to assure that every part of it is functioning

2.started by connecting the on\off switch with the DC motor

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4. It is functioning, so i started wiring it the same way in real life.

Now i made the carnival ride encloser following the Tutorial above:

finally Let's make it work 🌟

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What kinds of challenges or problems did you face while doing the assignment, tutorials, or exercises? How did you solve them? Did you ask for help from an instructor or peer? Please provide a link to the tutorial or article that you used to solve your problem (if any)

Overcoming Challenges

this week i really wanted to simulate motion by making a small bot at first, but it was pretty hard controlling a DC motor without a very proper functioning gears and encloser, so the carnival ride was the very suitable idea as i had all of its materials and components.

Another problem that i faced was that the DC motor was giving electricity sparks while I was connecting components, and that was because I was using 9 voltage adaptor, which was giving high voltage I needed to replace it with the 5 voltage adaptor, as there was a very high risk that the motor burn, that was a peer advice so always make sure to check any component data sheet.

Tinker CAD circuit

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