{"id":716,"date":"2009-11-01T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T20:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2009-11-01T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T20:41:33","slug":"week-8-phys-comp-dc-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/week-8-phys-comp-dc-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8: Phys Comp – DC MotorS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s exciting. We’re making stuff move. Sort of.<\/p>\n

So, I made a little video about my experience with the DC motor lab, which you can watch right now or keep reading while I tell you something about it first.<\/p>\n

Initially, I had some trouble figuring out how to get the breadboard set up correctly. I noticed that the diagram uses a 9V pin on the Arduino, which my Arduino doesn’t have. So, I hooked up one end of my wire to the second ground pin, assuming that the photo was not correct. Then, I put the other end of the wire into the breadboard, across from the power on the DC motor, assuming that that’s what was correct.<\/p>\n

Well, I was wrong about something because the above wasn’t working. So I tried to simply light up an LED just to make sure my wires were correct. The LED came on, so I figured I was right about something and just started doubting the diagram again. Eventually, someone suggested I plug the power directly into the breadboard – of course, since coming from ground, it wouldn’t make sense anyway – and then the motor came on.<\/p>\n

After that, I worked on the next part of the lab, using the potentiometer to adjust the motor. I got that part to work too. Pretty cool. I’m not so good with gears, yet, which is why I’m trying to adjust the rotating bar.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s exciting. We’re making stuff move. Sort of. So, I made a little video about my experience with the DC motor lab, which you can watch right now or keep reading while I tell you something about it first. Initially, I had some trouble figuring out how to get the breadboard set up correctly. … Continue reading “Week 8: Phys Comp – DC MotorS!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1,77,76],"tags":[140,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}