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.

NEW MATERIALS ASSEMBLING (Week 9)

For the new materials that I had chose to replace the paintball gun, I had found a suitable nail gun and a small air compressor for the badminton trainer.

The nail gun has to be mounted on the steel structure that was used to place the paintball gun. the nail gun is a bit smaller than the paintball gun so I have to do some adjustments to make sure the nail gun is placed perfectly and it will not provide another problem with the shuttlecock feeder.

For me to fit the nail gun and place it properly, I used additional materials such as cable wires. This is so that I can placed it and tie the gun with the cable wire around the steel structure.

It is placed perfectly fine and it is hoped that it will not cause any more problems regarding the materials used to propel the shuttlecock and also known as the shuttlecock firing mechanism.

The picture of the firing mechanism (nail gun) already mounted to the steel structure of the badminton trainer is as shown below.