Week of November 25th

This week, the group had two meetings, the first on 11/27 and the second on 11/30. All members were present for both meetings. Both meetings lasted for about 5 hours each.

During the first meeting, we completed a sketch of our fan for the SolidWorks portion of the project. The completed part (back orientation view) is shown below:

Next, we began to work on a code for the Arduino portion of our project, which is shown below:

	#include <Servo.h>
	Servo myservo;
	int pos = 0;
	const int buttonPin = 2;
	int buttonState = 0;
	const int servoPin = 9;
	int motorPin = 13;
	void setup() {
	pinMode(motorPin, OUTPUT);
	pinMode(servoPin, OUTPUT);
	pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
	myservo.attach(9);
	}
	void loop() {
	buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);
	if (buttonState == LOW) {
	digitalWrite(servoPin, HIGH);
	myservo.write(80);
	delay(500);
	digitalWrite(motorPin, HIGH);
	delay(1000);
	digitalWrite(motorPin, LOW);
	delay(500);
	}
	else {
	digitalWrite(servoPin, LOW);
	digitalWrite(motorPin, LOW);
	}
	}

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Following these two portions of the project, we continued to work on fine tuning the apparatus to meet the requirements of our initial sketch from last post. Here is a visual update of the actual "Awesome Bubble Contraption."

For the second meeting, we continued to work on the apparatus. We went to RadioShack to buy a battery holder, which would provide more output voltage to meet our necessary specifications. We also continued to work on our code and build the apparatus. Below is a video on how our apparatus works:

Our next meeting will take place some time next week. Stay tuned for our next blog post!