Solar Tracker - Arduino Uno Motor Shield

This is a solar tracker that we built for our final hardware project that involves a little bit of electronics and programming. It was built using an arduino uno, motor shield, 2 servo motors and 4 photocells put together with glue and popsicle sticks. I never thought we would have it working but here it is and it works great!
PLEASE comment or message for help with code or other questions

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Solar
• Tracker
• Arduino
• Uno
• Motor
• Shield
• final
• hardware
• electronics
• and
• programming
• code
• servo
• motors
• photocells
• solar
• panels
• project

[blahyourhamster]

Very good, but a bit jerky, do you really need them to move by that much every time it detects a difference?... You will be following the sun after all :P

[08EvanG]

@blahyourhamster

Yah we actually noticed later on what was wrong with the jerkyness, we had it reading in the info it was detecting to my laptop with a delay of 1second. long story short, it was a problem in the code that it was also delaying the change in motion for 1second too, so with that fixed the motion was much smoother

[teensow7]

its a awesome work dude !! B)

i am also working on a project wch is smilar to this one ... bt i am suffering with a bad coding ... would u be kind enough to share the program coding with me .... it would be of gr8 help !! thanks in advance ....

[08EvanG]

@teensow7 I think this is the final code we used for both motors... I don't know if you will make any sense of it but ill send it to your youtube mail

[mewithaflower]

Lovely stuff!! dude what program do you record the data in?

[08EvanG]

@mewithaflower the program came with the arduino it was written in a form of c+

[MalloryJane326]

thats pretty awesome. [y]

[SuperClayton1994]

Thats awesome

[MrGuynearby]

awesome project.. can u send me detail to my email guynearby@hotmail.com

[machine1986]

Hey fellas, I tried building a similar system but I'm having problems with the schematic. Can you send me the schematic you guys used for the solar tracker please?

[ThePhilleboy]

Are those ice cream sticks? how many ice creams have you eaten?? o.O

[mjhijhij]

@08EvanG can u send me the code plz and any teaching material about arduino , i know nth about it and i have to do a project like yours .... this my e-mail : mj-hijawi@hotmail.com

thnx a lot

[WarmestNuts]

Hey mate, awesome job. I'm actually doing something very similar for my uni project and I just can't get my head around the code. I'm having trouble getting the photocells to convey a message to the 2 servos to move towards the more intense light. Would be grateful if you could shed some light of my situation.

[windowi]

Hello! Awesome work. I just picked up a small solar panel, and would like to use your setup to optimize it's efficiency, anyway you could send me the code? Thank you for your time!

T

[virus35]

nice project ;)

[creatvwrkr]

the men on the picture is cool, LOL

nice work :D