Zongpeng Yu’s Status Report for 02/27/2021

This week I looked for motor that we gonna use to spin the camera. We decided on using a servo because we can have it rotate to an exact location. Also there is no need for motor controller because we are only having one servo and we need external power supply for it.

The part i picked is a 360 continuous rotation servo with feedback from adafruit. With the feedback, we can determine the location/rotation of the servo and we could use PWM to let it rotate to certain player’s position. Also this servo provides enough torque to support the camera on top of it. 

The link is: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3614?gclid=Cj0KCQiA-OeBBhDiARIsADyBcE4ks19fWb6nEjYKXbqq6JSbYBFpyEwgnjR2dLRSK4ZkQxkaQgekr6MaArZCEALw_wcB

Servo driver: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/adafruit-industries-llc/815/4990757?s=N4IgjCBcoLQBxVAYygMwIYBsDOBTANCAPZQDa4ArAEwIC6AvvYVWSHGBSIWAGwAESABboAdiNyYQDIA

Brandon also shared a servo on raspberry pi tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-16-channel-servo-driver-with-raspberry-pi/using-the-adafruit-library

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