Day Project, Bird

Picture of the gutted bird. I think I broke the connection that control the movement of the wings. Or lost the piece. I will take better note and care when disassemble a toy.

Picture of bird put back together. The goal of my project was to have to movement be controlled by the press of the tongue but was unable to do so. The movement is now controlled by the micro controller in set time intervals. The motor runs clockwise, stops, and then counter clockwise.

Video of the Bird in action. Movement is controlled by micro controller. It moves in time intervals that can be change with the PC. The wings are suppose to move with the movement of the head but they do not. More debugging and more attention to detail when taking the bird apart would of safeguarded against breaking the wing movement. But the motor at least does controll the head movement. The project was fun and rewarding.

Code for Bird project:

void setup ()
{
  pinMode (6,OUTPUT);  // input for relayswitch

  pinMode (7,OUTPUT); // input for relayswitch
}

void loop ()
{
  digitalWrite (6, HIGH); // inputs high to motor
  digitalWrite (7,HIGH);  // inputs high to motor
  delay (5000);           // duration of movement
  digitalWrite (7,LOW);   // inputs low to motor
  delay (1000);           // stops movement for 1 second
  digitalWrite (6,LOW);   // reverse movement for motor
  delay (2000);           // duration of movement
}