Key Terms

In this blog, I will briefly explain concepts, resources and terminology we are use in our project.

TinkerCad

This is an online software by the company Autocad that we use to simulate the operation of the servos. Online we can test different code and see how it affects the output of our circuit.

Servo

These are the small motor’s we will use for robotic arm. We use rotary actuators that have approximately 180 degrees of movement.

Arduino

Arduino is both a microprocessor and micro-controller used to control inputs, execute code and execute output to the servos. The proprietor itself is an open source hardware and software company whose products are open source and user community itself. Due to this ethos, they terrific products to get started with. We use an Arduino Uno.

Github

Github is a web based collaboration platform for coding, useful for keeping track of the iterations of code we used on Tinker Cad. We first came across this in the University of Liverpool's Coding and Robotics Society. The speaker Oliver Newman, treasurer, went into great details on its uses and the groundbreaking resource. In this blog is image of him doing so.

Axis of movement

An axis is a straight line around which an object rotates. The axis of movement is how the arm will move.

Pull up function

The pull up function was used in the code to ensure a known state for a signal. It ‘effectively’ establishes an additional loop over critical components.

3-D Printing

3-D printing is any of various processes in which material is layered or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object.

Laser cutting

Laser cutting is a technology that uses a laser to cut materials, in our project acrylic.

Stress distribution: How the forces are acting across an object.