Thursday, December 10, 2015

01-Dec-2015: Final Project

The EGG-cubator!

Learning the components:

We first had to learn to control the various components that would be used in the creation of our egg-cubator.


Learning to swap between relays meant that  two devices could be connected and set to run intermittently. This set the basis for power control and further component control.


Building:


  • May the building commence!!!!
  • Designs had to be made.... and LOW COST was a must.





  • *** Based after a vertical meat smoker.




  • Building could commence...
  • We started building a frame around the fan.




  • Keep warm if you're working in a poorly insulated shed.




  • Walls could then be added.









  • Eye protection is a must kids.




  • Before sealing everything up the egg rotator had to be built and inserted. Our design promoted cage free chicks.








  • Now we could seal all the edges and mount all the hardware.







  • Let the experimenting begin!!!!


  • Setup a station, maybe near a smoke alarm, the kitchen table was my safe bet.




  • Mark your egg so you know it rotated.




  • Preheat the oven ladies and gents.




  • Let's get ready to experiment.




  • Take a quick look from below.




  • SEAL IT UP AND LET IT RUN...  log that start time.




  • Check on the egg... did it rotate?



  • Is the egg at the desired temperature?



Data:


  • Use the tools that we've been given.








  • Now the data graphing, and modeling could commence... there is nothing in here about sleep.



  • ***FYI: McDonalds does not ask you to leave.






19-Nov-2015: Homework 19

DTMF assignment.



The only way I could think of doing this at the moment was to embed case after case after case.... you see where this is going?



It was very tedious and became confusing. So I stopped as soon as i could get one column to work.



Afterwords I learned that someone really thought outside the box and used MatLAB to decide what to do with the high and low values and thus spit out the appropriate keypad value cleanly and efficiently.
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17-Nov-2015: In Class

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12-Nov-2015: In Class

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12-Nov-2015: Homework 18

Creating a program to display data from two different temperature probes.






10-Nov-2015: In Class

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Practice 2:


Practice 3: