Week 6# - 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)

This week I made a small and simple eye animatronic✨👁️

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.

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

Arduino UNO

It will be our brain for the curcit.

Jumper wires

to wire it all up

IR sensor

It'll be our motion detector

resistors

to protect LED lights

servo motor

I'll use it to simulate the movment

Small breadboard

for building temporary circuits

Foam clay

as i used it to sculpt the eye

popsicle sticks

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 coding 🌟

So we will click code to get tis window

start by going to control and choose If, Else block

3.Now from Input choose read digital pin, and set the pin number to your IR sensor signal pin , which in my case is pin no. 7

2.Now from math choose comparison function, as we will manipulate ot to set the condition for the micro servo and LEDs

4.Now from math choose High function, so when IR sensor dedicate movement, the function will function

Now we will list every command we need Arduino to do :

so when IR sensor dedicate movement the servo will rotate which will lead "my clay eye to look up, and the LEDs will be turned on too,

and when there is no motion the servo will be back to 0° which will lead "my clay eye to look down again, and the LEDs will be turned off.

finally hit simulate 🌟

screen-capture.webm

1.Now since everything is functioning smoothly we will start wire our own circuit IRL.

2.Then we will copy this code to upload it to Arduino

3.and to do so hit "Code" then choose "blocks and text"
4.CTRL A then CTRL C to copy

5.and finally CTRL V in arduino uno program to paste

Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?

Development/Implementation Process⚒️:

the final output ✨

VID20240206214451.mp4

VID_20240206215254.mp4

real life simulation with IR sensor and servo motor.

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

the motion was not very smooth as I wanted so I had to install the servo that way to get the very best output as it needed to be stable to simulate the motion.

as stability is very important to get every component stabilized to get the right motion out of it.

Animatronic eye [.ino]

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