Week 2 :


Researched on how to wire a stepper motor with eight leads to the a L298N motor driver. Initially ran into issues as to how to connect multiple wires of the stepper motor together for it to work with a motor driver that only has 4 outputs. After searching the internet for wiring diagrams, the stepper motors' company website had exact wiring diagrams. Using this the stepper motor was running and later got it tested with he wireless setup and that too worked perfectly !

I also worked on the linear actuator to get it to function. The green linear actuator is broken while the black one is functional. I used a simple code to see if the actuator can go in and out, but for some reason it did not work. Then two hours later, the actuator worked with the same exact code for some odd reason. Now, I have to work with the other team to incorporate the hall sensors and synthesize a code to make the linear actuator carry out the desired application.