Week 5. Allocation

After this week studio,We decided to separate the project in parts,and my part is trying to combine different funtions on the chipboard.

So for our project, I need to build few actions into one.
1.Turning(left&right);
2.Driving(forward&reverse);
3.A botton for accelerator(start engine).

here is the draft plan that I'm going to do:

Draft Planning and Theory 

Build different components into one.Firstly,I draw the draft plan on the paper and test it out.

sample layout and initial idea 

CIRC-07

CIRC-08

CIRC-13

So I will combine these 3 funtions into one.and test it out.

Week 4. Practice

In this week, Russell gave us the arduino kit box to do the practice.And I follow the tutorials and step on, find its a very interesting project in this course. It help me learning more things about DIY electrical. And here are the images for the step.

arduino kit pack

Items and wires

Finished connecting (CIRC-08)

Finished connecting (CIRC-13)

Arduino Code for CIRC-08

Website Links

Problems:

I followed the instructions and downloaded software for this arduino chipboard.Then I coding the code into it, but its not work normally.The results is not showing and I will keep working on it.

（main problem: when I turning the potentiometers the LED light is not change and nothing happened)

Problem possibilities:
1.The arduino kit pack are broken.(led light,wires or parts)
2.Coding incorrect
3.Uploading error

Problem fixed:
In week 5 studio,I discussed with my group teammates and finally solved problem above.
When upload the code into the arduino chipboard, you need to select the port first(under tools> ports>COM4(arduino Uno),then click upload.

Week 3. Learning

In week 3, we are still working on the Arduino Uno and Unreal engine 4.


Here is the youtube links for chipboard:

Thinking about Arduino

Custom build Steering wheel

Week 2. Researching

I joined the driving machine last Wednesday.The teammates are very nice and we decided a lot of things that we need to working on.

So my part is researching the software,about unreal engine 4 and how it works and about Arduino.

what is unreal engine 4?

Unreal Engine 4 is a complete suite of game development tools made by game developers, for game developers. 

what is Arduino?

Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple micro-controller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.

Process

So firstly, we need to create a game(truck) in unreal engine 4, then we need to use a sensor to link a real physical wheel with the unreal engine. And use the wheel to control the truck in game to make it moves (turns and go head or back). To make it in first-person perspective.

There is the youtube video links: 
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t2wI9bc-xE , 
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQol-UIi8i4
We are going to do something similar to this cool staff.

And here is the link for the unreal engine 4 tutorials: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8SQDIf5nUs

Build Arduino UNO For $5(cheap):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNIMCdVOHOM

Problems:
I went to unreal engine website, and trying to download it. but i can not install it into my PC, it tells i need to install the windows service pack 1 first.( don't know how to fix it )

Targeted CV