CE432 2022 Fall
Lab 6
Name: Braden Morrow Email: bdmorrow@fortlewis.edu
1. Lab 6 - Joystick / Stepper Motor Tutorial
2. Introduction The purpose of this tutorial was to practice sending and recieving signals with the 2.4GHz wireless modules, reading in data from a joystick, and controlling a stepper motor.
3. Results Task 1: This
task just asked us to get the joystick reading into the serial monitor
in Arduino. Figure 1 shows the results of reading in the joystick to
the serial monitor. The code for this task is in Tutorial6 -> Task1.
Figure 1. Results from Reading in Joystick to Serial Monitor
Task 2: This
task asked us to send the values generated by the joystick to another Arduino microcontroller (in my case an Arduino Mega2560)
using the 2.4 GHz wireless modules. We then needed to display the sent
values on ther serial monitor. Figure 2 shows this process. The code
for this task was a paired down version of the code used for Task 3.
Figure 2. Results from Transferring Data using 2.4GHz Wireless Modules
Task 3: This
task asked us to send the values generated by the joystick to another Arduino microcontroller (in my case an Arduino Mega2560)
using the 2.4 GHz wireless modules and then control a stepper motor
using these values. Figure 3 shows this process. The code for this task
can be found in Tutorial6 -> Task2_T (the transmitter code) and
Tutorial6 -> Task2_R (the reciever code).
Figure 3. Results from Controlling a Stepper Motor using a Joystick and 2.4 GHz Wireless Modules
5. Discussion This
was a good introduction to the use of the 2.4 GHz wirless modules. From
previous classes I've used both the joystick and stepper motor before,
but this was a unique control scheme compared to those previous
porjects. It was also more fun to work on than just sending basic
values over the modules.
