Monday, November 11, 2013

First Official Meeting - 11/11/13

     On the morning of Monday, November 11, 2013, our first official meeting as a group took place. During the pervious lab period, we decided to construct a Bubble Machine. This bubble machine will have a fan connected to a DC motor, and multiple bubble wands connected to a Servos. The bubble wands will bend down from their inital positions into a vat of solution below, and upon rising, the fan will blow air agains them, forming bubbles.

Figure 1 below shows a rough diagram of how the machine will be set up.

     Where part 1(and the similar knobs below) represent each of the wands to be connected by a servo to dip into the solution. Each wand will be connected to it's own individual Servo, and will be controlled by their own buttons. Part 2 represents a large board used as a base. This base board will also have a large container of bubble fluid on it for the wands to dip in. Part 3 represents a DC motor that will spin 360` and will have one single wand attached to it. Finally, part 4 is where the fan will be located, and will be a DC motor with a propellor, or just a stronger fan, depending on what we find.

The code below is a draft of the code to run the DC motor and the fan.

https://gist.github.com/lawm1991/7416595 

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