Week 9: Motors

This week in lab we will be focusing on working on sketch 2, and learning about using motors with arduino.

Servo Library : Library for controlling motors in Arduino
examples: servo: - here you can find different example patches for the different motors.

For our sketch 2, we will be using a round servo motor. it has 3 wires.
Black - ground
red - 5volt arduino
yellow - signal wire

The following week will be working on sketch 2 in class.


For the rest of this class, will be showing off our in lab assignments of our first textiles.

For our group, we got the code fully working with the bread board, using a button to turn the lights on and off, alternating between colours.

But when we connected the arduino to our headband, the program didn't work. We had difficulty figuring out the circuit with the conductive thread, but spoke to Greg about our project.

He was impressed with the sewing skills used on the textile, and explained what we would want to do and focus on for our sketch 2 in order to get the textile with the arduino code working together.

We are going to be focusing on making clean circuits in the textile itself, incorporating resistors. Especially making and tail ends of thread extremely short in order to not short out the circuit.