Week 12 - Prototype Construction Phase 3 (motor addition & programming)

This morning I went and bought a little geared hobby motor that I hoped would do the trick.

Tamiya mini motor multi-ratio gearbox hobby motor

All parts out and ready for assembly

Final Prototype constructed and ready to be hooked up to the persona board and programmed.

Final Breadboard circuit laid out.

Connection plug fabricated for easy plugging in of the persona board.

Persona board being pluged into the breadboard.

All ready for programming.

Notice the Hall Sensor sitting below the large magnet above the fan. The Hall Sensor senses a consistant magnetic field coming from the fixed permanent magnet. When the fan with the other permanent magnet is offered up to the hall sensor it senses the change in magnetic field triggering the notification system within the program that runs the prototype.

Programming the Arduino chip in Yasu's office... THANK YOU YASU!!!

Motor located below the electronic flame dial.

Here is a close up of the motor in situ followed by the videos showing the progress of the programming.

Close up of the fishing line attached to the end of the motors axel.

Initial testing of the motor attached to the fan via the fishing line... will it turn the fan effectively????.... YES!!!

Final testing of the motor attached to the fan via the fishing line.

A quick final demonstration of the proof of concept prototype. If you imagine that the magnets on the persona board represents other group members' levi mates, I think it shows how one users levi-mate outputs the information provided by other users levi-mates very successfully.