Today we took all of the motor components in to uni and fooled around with them. After SIX hours we had an automated motor mechanism which started pulse width modulation at 800 and automatically increased over time to full speed; 1800. This was all done through an arduino. HELL YEAHS. Thanks to dekker for helping with the coding, I would never of thought to use the inbuilt MILIS function, which records the time in milliseconds since the current section of code began, as a timer to ramp up the speed over time.
The main problem here was our limited coding knowlege, it took a LONG time to wrap our heaps around the code which we downloaded, and than had to radically adapt to our needs. But we did it! personal victory woo woo!
Lex had spent like 6 hours the night before trying to get it to work with no avail, but that time he spent helped us today, as he had done a huge amount of initial research.
We also had a short meeting with Ralph about OHS and he said he "sent out some tendrils to probe" hopefully we dont get screwed over by OHS. SPINNING BLADES OF DEATH for the WIN!
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