Week 1

Recitation:
In the week 1 lecture our group discussed ways to drive the disk to move the magnet. The two primary ideas are to use a belt or series of gears to move the disk. Another idea for the setup is to have a magnet attached to a servo to allow the magnet's attraction to be adjusted.

Lab:
After having time to think separately, our group came together today with a rough cad model of an idea that could be pursued and information on using python to control the arduino board.

Idea: Using a system of gears or a belt to have a motor drive a 3D printed disk that holds the petri dish. Using PySerial the ports of the arduinocan be controled completely through Python.

Problems: In trying to shrink the gear for ease of mounting a motor, the pitch of the gear teeth was altered causing the meshing of the gears to be sloppy.

Disscussion: In the lab today the Python to Arduino link was tested. Linked python to the Arduino successfully. The project proposal for the class was started and managed to complete a section.