Active toy plane

Submitted by derek on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 20:28

Added a propeller and motor to my toy plane! Very simple but tons of fun. Very simple.

Materials

  • -cardboard plane (cardboard, hot glue, wooden stick, duct tape)
  • -motor
  • -Balsa wood propeller
  • -Arduino uno
  • -transistor
  • -2 AA batteries and holder
  • -1 10k potentiometer 

Code (from lab :): 

 

/*
 * one pot fades one motor
 * modified version of AnalogInput
 * by DojoDave <http://www.0j0.org>
 * http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogInput 
 * Modified again by dave
 */

int potPin = 0;   // select the input pin for the potentiometer
int motorPin = 9; // select the pin for the Motor
int val = 0;      // variable to store the value coming from the sensor
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
  val = analogRead(potPin);    // read the value from the sensor, between 0 - 1024
  Serial.println(val);
  analogWrite(motorPin, val/4); // analogWrite can be between 0-255
}
 
paper plane + circuit in the background
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