INDUSTRY DAY (Week 14)

This week is INDUSTRY DAY.

It is hoped nothing goes wrong and that I can do it well.

PROJECT RESULTS, COMPLETE POSTER (Week 13)

A complete poster and three tables of the results of the distance covered by the shuttlecock when it is propelled using the project that i have completed which is the badminton trainer.

Below is the picture of the complete poster that will be printed out in an A1 sized paper.

Below is the tabulated results of the distance covered by the shuttlecock. These results are based on a 2.5HP air compressor with 125 psi or pressured and compressed air. Three tables were taken to show the consistency of the badminton trainer.

POSTER - DRAFT (Week 12)

This is the draft of my poster that will be shown during the Industry Day.

Basically this is only a rough sketch of the poster as you can see there are a lot of empty spaces to be filled up.This is because the result of my project have not been inserted on the poster. Final and complete poster will be posted on the next entry on the blog.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND COMPLETE PROJECT (Week 11)

The description of the project will be explained in point form below:

• Main power supply is turned ON
• The first motor on the base of the badminton trainer will starts to rotate 90 degrees from left to right and right to left continuously.
• Shuttlecock feeder will feed the shuttlecock in front of the firing mechanism.
• The servo motor will trigger the nail gun (firing mechanism)
• Enough pressured air from the nail gun will propel the shuttlecock.
• This process will repeat until the main power supply is turned off.

On the other hand, below is the picture of the complete project of the badminton trainer.

ARDUINO TO CONTROL RC SERVO MOTOR (Week 10)

For the triggering of the firing mechanism (nail gun),since it is not triggered manually by user, it has to be triggered automatically by something. So my choice of triggering is using an RC servo motor (C36R).

In my project, 2 RC servo motors are used. One servo motor is used as the catalyst to trigger the nail gun. Another servo motor is used as a collector for the shuttlecock to guide the spring which grabs the head pf the shuttlecock to the mouth of the nail gun. These servo motors are wired in parallel connection with the ARDUINO.

For your information, I used ARDUINO as my program to control the movements of the RC servo motors because it is much simpler. ARDUINO is an open source single board microcontroller. It is designed to make the process of using and programming electronics parts and components projects more accessible and much simpler.

For my badminton trainer, I had purchased ARDUINO from Cytron Technologies. The model for my ARDUINO is the ARDUINO UNO R3 - Compatible.