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Solenoid, Pump, Motor, LCD
This week's mission is to add an output device to a microcontroller board and program it to do something.
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Soft Robots
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Soft Robot Toolkit
I want to test arounf soft robot, trying to see if it's a good material for my final project. The soft robot toolkit provides very good open source files and tutorials.
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Molding
I 3D printed several molds. I used Mold Star 20T Silicon rubber.
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Mini Actuator
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Skin
It's hard to get the silicon rubber out. I destroyed one of the molds to get it out. All the rubbers here are failed to inflate as air blows in. I guess maybe the material is a bit thick and hard. I'll try Ecoflex 20 and DragonSkin 10 when they arrived.
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Look up datasheet
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Design a little board
I made a little helper board to plugin the solenoid to my microcontroller board.
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Milling
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Connect to my microcontroller board
Water Pump
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DC Motor
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LCD
I want to try to program the LCD with Neil's code.
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Make .hex file
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Board connection problem
When I try to prepare the board for writing into it, it says initialization failed, double tries connections. I've tried to debug as much as I could, but was unable to get it right.