Useless Box Overview

As we haven't posted a video of our idea yet, we are planning on building a 'useless box' powered by our arduino. This video is an overview of how it will perform and what it will look like.

We are currently working on specifications of the push arm that will push the switch and designing this in solidworks to print later on in the week.

This is a video of our switch code working with our switch and servo motor.

Meeting: 11/25
Length: 2 hrs
Members Present: McKenzie, Alex, Mike, Schayne

Overview of week 11/17 - 11/23

Overview of last week's two meetings...
Thursday:

Meeting: 11/21
Length: 1 hr 30 min
Members Present: McKenzie, Alex, Mike, Schayne

- Went over sketches, decided we couldn't finalize until we had exact dimensions of box
- Alex said he would bring in two boxes from home so we could decide on one
- Tested servo motor code with success, had it push and lift small books
- Worked furthur on code

Friday:

Meeting: 11/22
Length: 1 hr
Members Present: McKenzie, Alex, Mike, Schayne

No dimensions to work on sketches so we made a list of things to get for this week as well as completed further testing of servo motor.

Alex
Lowes:
- balsa wood
- small hinges
- toggle switch (3 pins?)
- 9V battery if you want?
- wire extensions
Bring:
- soldering iron
- hot glue fun
- boxes

McKenzie
- electrical tape
- solder
- post videos
- post summary of meeting

Schayne
- post sketches
- model of solid works finger

We decided to all research stronger servo motors as a backup if ours could not perform to specifications.

Video of test on servo motor

Here is a short video of our test on the servo motor with the LCD screen attached. We believe the servo will be strong enough to lift the switch arm.

Design Sketches with Minimum Required Dimensions

Latest Design Sketches:

Overview of week 11/10 - 11/16 along with code

Thursday 
Meeting: 11/14
Length: 45 min
Members Present: Alex, McKenzie, Mike, Schayne

- Found a sample code to go off of and edited it to suit our needs for the useless box. 
- Began sketches of the useless box, trying to figure out dimensions 

Code taken from instructables for use on useless box machine: