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Test for the highest light level.
07/16/2018 at 02:54 • 0 commentsOne of Sun Chaser’s main functions will be to find the area of the brightest light level. Two curved surfaces with six photo resistors are used to form a 360 degree light level direction indicator. The video below shows the test of the 360 degree light level sensors. So far, so good!
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Curved surfaces added.
07/14/2018 at 01:18 • 0 commentsThe curved surfaces used to determine the direction of the greatest light with six photo resistors is complete.
Below is Sun Chaser with the curved surfaces installed.
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Photoresistors arrived from Digi-Key!
07/07/2018 at 23:36 • 0 commentsThe photoresistors arrived from Digi-Key. Now I can assembly the curved surface to detect the direction of the greatest sunlight.
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Starting the Build
06/29/2018 at 01:10 • 0 commentsThe first Sun Chaser is being built from a lot of re-purposed materials. After testing and working out the bugs, another more reproducible version will be built. The beginning of the Sun Chaser is a re-purposed aluminum cover that will now be the bottom plate of the robot.
Two pieces of aluminum channel and a four strips of sheet aluminum can make a good motor mount. The motor wires are routed through holes with grommets to protect the wires.
Next, four stand offs and the Squid motor driver is mounted.