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WEEK 5

TESTING AND IMPROVING THE PROTOTYPE 

On 22/2/2018 the usual meeting with my supervisor for my project came out to be improving my prototype and testing the functionality of the gyro sensor and tilt sensor. During the meeting session, my supervisor as me to test the servo motor with arduino uno board. Below was the testing of the servo motor only with arduino uno board. 

From the video shows that the board that attach to the servo motor was actually act as the temporary board. Then my task was to change the board to a more stiff and stable board such as mounting board/acrylic board.

Mounting Board

Acrylic Board

Next is the testing gyro sensor with arduino uno board. Below is the setup for the testing process. 

Setup for gyro sensor testing 

As for testing the gyro sensor, however something went wrong when getting the measurement. When my supervisor and I tested the sensor, the result shown from the serial monitor of the arduino software shows undesired result. After testing several other gyro sensor, still the reading does not accurate. So my my new task is to buy the new gyro sensor for next week meeting session with my supervisor. 

As to conclude before the meeting session end, my task are:

a) Buy new gyro sensor

b) Find better platform/board for the prototype

c) Calculate the angle 

     From angular velocity to angle in degree/radian

That is all for my week 5 report for fyp blog. See you on the following week to see more task that I did 😊