Week 13
Lourens Adrian Botha
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Working Model (Proof of Concept)

After many hours trying to resolve my first circuit to operate wirelessly, I finally admitted defeat.
So first i needed some sort of frame or form of a gun to apply my Circuitry. I found this amazing fly gun in Jaycar and thought it would be perfect with some modifications. I especially loved that it had a reload barrel that i could enable as a mechanical switch.

 

I bought a number of 5v relay switches that I ended up using in my very first working gun. Later I was to learn from Yasu that a transistor would be a much better application for this and also the concern that a relay could damage the Arduino board with some use.

 

My first idea was to connect the entire remote control to the gun. But this would require a very small one such as the one obtained below. This remote control never worked that well as i had many issues soldering a wire to close the circuit permanently as my gun would have it own switch for this.

 

 

This is my first gun, which i was very pleased with the out come. This did not include and RF component at this stage.

I unbalanced a motor for a vibrator using a sinker

Three Led’s (orange, red, green)

And a buzzer

 

Arduino Circuit cleaned up and working thanks to my Yasu

 

 

 

I went through a lot of remote controls trying to use their RF transmitter. At first I tried operating them as normal LED but soon discovered that it needs to be sent at a very specific frequency using a program. This was only after probably blowing four up....