Tuesday, October 9, 2007
ELEGON_prototype_02_postings
Team: Anond Adrian Arunsmith, Esther Chu, Phuttipan Aswakool, Tao Liu and, last but not least, out beloved Gao Tian (who is in Morocco at the moment ='[ )
use RELAY to get more movement
We try to introduce the use of relay into our new prototype this week, in order to get more power by connecting to two batteries , so that our flexinol wire can get its own individual source of electricity, to get a great movement. Above diagram shows how the relay is connected to the breadboard and the second battery.
We also improved our 1st prototype's mechanism by introducing this "wings" like system to help better attach our skin to the system to create the wave-like movement we desire. The strength of the thin flexinol is rather weak, and the longer the flexinol is the greater the power it consumes. Thus, we are planning to try on a thicker flexinol for protoype 3.
use RELAY to get more movement
We try to introduce the use of relay into our new prototype this week, in order to get more power by connecting to two batteries , so that our flexinol wire can get its own individual source of electricity, to get a great movement. Above diagram shows how the relay is connected to the breadboard and the second battery.
We also improved our 1st prototype's mechanism by introducing this "wings" like system to help better attach our skin to the system to create the wave-like movement we desire. The strength of the thin flexinol is rather weak, and the longer the flexinol is the greater the power it consumes. Thus, we are planning to try on a thicker flexinol for protoype 3.
sensor + relay: The movement is more greater than the set up without relay.
Prototype 2 + relay: The movement is not as smooth as we've expected, which might due to the extra length of flexinol we used took up more electricity, thus the movement is not as great as we would like it to be.
Labels: elegon
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