The purpose of the project
This project was realized within the mechatronics course given by Prof. Dr. Ir. Bram Vanderborght. For the practical course the students are asked to make a project for which the combination of mechanics and electronics is actually carried out. This means that a small mechanism controlled by a micro-controller unit has to be build.
For the practical course the students are asked to make a project for which the combination of mechanics and electronics is actually carried out. This means that a small mechanism controlled by a micro-controller unit has to be build.
These assignments enclose three major parts. Firstly the students have to design and build their mechanical set-up, secondly they have to create the electronic link between the micro-controller and this this set-up which mainly implies of signal conditioning, amplification and buffering. And the thirth part consists of programming the micro-controller in Arduino, an open source language quiet similar to C++, where the main goal is to get used to different possibilities of such a device and learn about the basics of a computer control unit.
As a final result the students are asked to create a website about their project explaining in detail problems and solutions. These sites can be visited through links given in "Finished Projects"