Monday, February 18, 2013

The Chronicles of the Dancing Egg
Part 3

Sunday 2/10/13 2pm - 5pm

Thomas and I successfully soldered the two infrared transmitter modules (one for the egg and one for Andrea's head) onto PCBs.
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In other news, Thomas, Federico, and Andrea had worked Saturday night and tested the proximity detection as well as created the new version of balancing and moving the egg (using a lead egg fishing weight).
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The two infrared LED modules were relatively simple to design, but were harder to solder. After getting one module soldered, we realized that the infrared light wasn't very bright. Because of this, we decided to remove one resistor from each of the LED circuits to allow more current to pass through.

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