<div dir="ltr"><div>I want to make a "winch servo" to move some spiders up and down on a line. <a href="http://inventorartist.com/halloween/">http://inventorartist.com/halloween/</a></div><div><br></div>I'm looking at making a simple encoder out of the sensors we used in the Arduino Challenge. <a href="http://inventorartist.com/oac/">http://inventorartist.com/oac/</a><div><br></div><div>This will be a sort of servo based on a dc motor and I'll use the sensor to track the progression of the rotation.</div><div><br></div><div>In theory I know the direction of the motor since I'm driving it. So each time the sensor is triggered I know I have progression in the direction of the drive. I'm tempted to keep it this way and stay simple.</div><div><br></div><div>But lets say a 3 year old yanks on one of the spiders. That may give rotation against the drive direction and the system will have wrong information.</div><div><br></div><div>To fix this I can add a second sensor. </div><div><br></div><div>So an AB trigger of the two sensors is one direction and BA is the other direction.</div><div><br></div><div>Any thoughts on if this is worth it and if it solves the problem? </div><div><br></div><div>My intuition tells me the project will be good enough with the single sensor. Especially since I'll probably use a hacked RC servo as the drive. <a href="http://inventorartist.com/continuous-rotation-servo-hack/">http://inventorartist.com/continuous-rotation-servo-hack/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Yanking one of those things backwards against the drive is not easy...</div><div><br></div><div>There is another idea I had and it's to use the IR as a limit switch and do the rest of the work with dead reckoning guessing. If each drive has two spiders (when one goes up the other goes down), then I can home it on both sides to guess how long to drive the motor for full movement. And if it ever drifts it'll hit the home trigger...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Any other ideas on how to move the spiders around?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div><br></div><div><div>--</div><div>Darcy Whyte</div><div><br></div><div>Art+ <a href="http://inventorartist.com/" target="_blank">inventorArtist.com</a> | Aviation <a href="http://rubber-power.com/" target="_blank">rubber-power.com</a></div><div>Contact: <a href="mailto:darcy@inventorArtist.com" target="_blank">darcy@inventorArtist.com</a> | 613-563-3634 by appointment (no text)</div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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