“And remember that bad times… are just times that are bad…” – Katrina, Animal Crossing
With one more week to work on the motor circuit I was feeling very nervous. The main thing I needed was to get my laser cutting design cut, and to pick up the final version of my box.
My laser cutting session was reliant on the fact that I wanted to get a UV printed design on my gear, but the technician told me their printer was acting up and it could take up to 3 days to get done. When Wednesday rolled around and I hadn’t heard from them I got very nervous, but luckily it had been done and I just didn’t get an email. I managed to get the gear cut and ready the same day!
The box I picked up still had some errors, I didn’t think about how the wires would fit inside, so I had to rush to send in another model. The 3d technicians are so nice and let me skip the queue, but I can’t rely on that in the future so I need to better manage my time.
Writing the arduino code was very simple. I took the default colour sensor code and plugged the separate r, g, and b inputs into the LED’s RGB function and it worked pretty quickly.
I got so much done on Monday and Wednesday, but I still had to come in on Thursday to put everything together, pickup my new box, and film footage for my showcase video. But while I was picking up my box, my battery’s wires somehow touched and melted! I am SO lucky my circuit wasn’t damaged, I just had to borrow a classmate’s batteries and I was done.
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