Automatic Pet Feeder
Automatic Pet Feeder
I felt like I grew a lot doing this assignment. I was sprung forth into the the wild of electronics
and I got to experience a real world application of my and my partner’s electronics skills.
This project removed the training wheels and the path, we had directions but the rest was up to
us. We had to come up with an idea developed from the given premise and then realize that
into a physical representation of the product we hoped to demonstrate. We had to find the
resources for this project on our own and experience the trial and error of the project. There
was very little in a ways of beware of this or don’t do that, which was one of the main strengths
of the project. I gained a better understanding of the parts specific to our project (i.e. servos,
laser diodes and LDRs). As well the qualities that surround the functions of these parts, such
as having to account for the intensity of the laser’s light when programming the arduino’s code
for the LDR to respond to. We managed to get the configuration fully operational how we
planned to, so we were completely successful in our final project. However we had a lot of trial
and error along the way. We tried an H-bridge configuration that had issues due to improper
transistors being used, then we had issues trying to implement an IC with a built in H-bridge,
we had to swap servos for a position oriented servo, and we also had to remake our laser
configuration from scratch as it quit working (we were never able to find the issue, the board
wasn’t faulty, the parts were all fine, and the circuit was done correctly - perhaps something
was off in one of the wires transferring the power, we tried so many things to fix that we
thought it would be better just to remake on a separate board with separate parts). During this
time we had a few transistors burn out as well and a few sparks here and there due to the
arduino transferring more power via a laptop then expected. All things aside I think all the
errors lead to great experience in learning from all of our errors.
and I got to experience a real world application of my and my partner’s electronics skills.
This project removed the training wheels and the path, we had directions but the rest was up to
us. We had to come up with an idea developed from the given premise and then realize that
into a physical representation of the product we hoped to demonstrate. We had to find the
resources for this project on our own and experience the trial and error of the project. There
was very little in a ways of beware of this or don’t do that, which was one of the main strengths
of the project. I gained a better understanding of the parts specific to our project (i.e. servos,
laser diodes and LDRs). As well the qualities that surround the functions of these parts, such
as having to account for the intensity of the laser’s light when programming the arduino’s code
for the LDR to respond to. We managed to get the configuration fully operational how we
planned to, so we were completely successful in our final project. However we had a lot of trial
and error along the way. We tried an H-bridge configuration that had issues due to improper
transistors being used, then we had issues trying to implement an IC with a built in H-bridge,
we had to swap servos for a position oriented servo, and we also had to remake our laser
configuration from scratch as it quit working (we were never able to find the issue, the board
wasn’t faulty, the parts were all fine, and the circuit was done correctly - perhaps something
was off in one of the wires transferring the power, we tried so many things to fix that we
thought it would be better just to remake on a separate board with separate parts). During this
time we had a few transistors burn out as well and a few sparks here and there due to the
arduino transferring more power via a laptop then expected. All things aside I think all the
errors lead to great experience in learning from all of our errors.
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