Baby Mechatronic Dinosuar

For this assignment, Natalynn and I made a simple wireframe dinosaur who raises and lowers its head when a crank is turned. Our DC Toy Motor was not powerful enough to pull the crank on its own, but both parts of the project do work separately, as shown in the videos below.

Video 1: The motor is shown pulling the string taut, but without the force necessary to pull the crank.

Video 2: The crank is moved manually to show the dinosaur's head and tail moving.

Lab 7 - Motor Labs

1. Controlling a Servo Motor from Processing

2. Use the potentiometer to control the speed of a DC toy motor.

3. Control the speed of the toy motor with processing