Output Devices

Solenoid, Pump, Motor, LCD

This week's mission is to add an output device to a microcontroller board and program it to do something.

Soft Robots

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.

Molding

I 3D printed several molds. I used Mold Star 20T Silicon rubber.

Mini Actuator

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.

Look up datasheet

Design a little board

I made a little helper board to plugin the solenoid to my microcontroller board.

Milling

Connect to my microcontroller board

Water Pump

DC Motor

LCD

I want to try to program the LCD with Neil's code.

Make .hex file

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.