So here we are, as you have most likely guessed this blog is about about the construction of a sweet launcher, which will rapidly deliver a sugary treat to a hungry individual!
I am doing this as a summer project over 8 weeks for the university of Bristol Blake bursary with the aim to use it as an interactive demo for open days and introduce engineering concepts, such as programming digital signal processing, real time systems, programming, electronics, mechanical engineering and such.
So here is the idea...
I am going to develop a pneumatically driven launcher that will deliver a sweet to a target individual.
Once a person is detected the launcher will automatically adjust its position and then fire a sweet to
that persons location. This system will be based around the Raspberry Pi, which will unitise a video feed input to detect a person and will control a range of actuators, pneumatics to launch the sweet and stepper motors to adjust the position of the launcher barrel. It will also be able to connect a computer via wireless connection for manual control.
So what's been going on?!
Currently im a week in, and while I've been waiting for parts to arrive, I have mostly been busying myself with getting to grips with the raspberry pi... im about as noobish as they come to using Linux based systems, so im experiencing a little bit of a learning curve, however i am picking things up quickly with the help my immensely talented & esteemed colleague, whom is also doing a blake bursary project, i set up an SSH connection from pi to laptop and made some basic programs to control the Pi's GPIO. Check out what he is doing for his project on his blog 8-bit band!
So what's next?
Recently i got some stepper motors and components needed to interface them to the raspberry Pi (WOOO!), but more on that later!
Once a person is detected the launcher will automatically adjust its position and then fire a sweet to
that persons location. This system will be based around the Raspberry Pi, which will unitise a video feed input to detect a person and will control a range of actuators, pneumatics to launch the sweet and stepper motors to adjust the position of the launcher barrel. It will also be able to connect a computer via wireless connection for manual control.
So what's been going on?!
Currently im a week in, and while I've been waiting for parts to arrive, I have mostly been busying myself with getting to grips with the raspberry pi... im about as noobish as they come to using Linux based systems, so im experiencing a little bit of a learning curve, however i am picking things up quickly with the help my immensely talented & esteemed colleague, whom is also doing a blake bursary project, i set up an SSH connection from pi to laptop and made some basic programs to control the Pi's GPIO. Check out what he is doing for his project on his blog 8-bit band!
So what's next?
Recently i got some stepper motors and components needed to interface them to the raspberry Pi (WOOO!), but more on that later!
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