WEEK 9 Output Device
Heater Unit
This week I built a part of
my final project – heater unit
Concerning to add more output for the finals and easy for myself to program (I know a little bit about processing), I choose to make a fabduino with the great help by Ed Baafi.
Finish the soldering. But it can not be programmed. Debugging for tons of times, I still can not find the problem.
So, I make another one. But it still doest not work. Finally we find out it is the problem of the FTDI cable.
Making the heater unit:
using the nichrome wire:
Then
I found insulated nichrome wire from my friend's chemistry lab.
Using asbestos cloth as the cover
add another one metal layer to get even heating area:
This week I test my project on the breadboard instead of cutting an pcb:
Then, using a 15v DC power supply: