Friday, March 8, 2013

Laser spirograph

I wanted to build a project that would increase my experence with non microcontroller chips. So I picked one I know pretty well (555) one I faile with in the past (h bridge) and a new one (not gate.)
The h bridge and I had words once or twice and I have some projects I want done that use motors. So I set up two 555 timers to provide pwm and fed that to the enable pins for the h bridge. The direction pins are tide via the not gate and have switches. Motors are driven by 9v, and the mirrors are mounted on the end of the shaft.

Which reminds me,  don't cut CDs in the laser cutter.

I wired it all up and fired it up and blamn... it worked. Some call me presumptuous,  some a genius,  you can call me hip.

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