How To Make Turntable At Home

Introduction

Stationary showpieces? Too mainstream!

Stationary fine art? Where'due south the fun in that!

How nearly calculation some movement? Behold the terrific turntable, a rotating instrument that is both fascinating and useful at the same time! You can use it to make cool patterns, paint objects, and even display dissimilar showpieces.

Sounds interesting? How virtually making ane correct now? Swoop correct in to make your own DIY turntable whose speed and direction tin can be easily controlled using evive's potentiometer and slide switch.

Ready. Set. Plough!

Components Required

Building Guide

Pace ane: Associates

The assembly of the turntable is very simple. Follow the steps:

Take a cardboard and cut a circle with a diameter of approximately 15cm.
Gently put removable glue (like hot glue gun) on the outer perimeter of the wheel and paste the wheel on the heart of the cardboard piece yous have cutting previously.
Take a DC motor and place it on the base plate. Refer to the given figure. Tight it using cablevision ties.
Now you have to just insert the bike on the motor shaft and your turntable is ready.
Take a piece of paper and cut into circular shape. Set up it on the paper-thin
using bounden clips.
Mount evive on the base plate.

Footstep 2: Excursion Diagram

You just have to connect motor to evive Motor channel ane. Refer to the effigy on the correct.

DC Motor Control Fritzing Cirrcuit Diagram

Step iii: A brief virtually Scratch

Scratch is a graphical programming linguistic communication which let you interface and control your evive with laptop. If yous take not installed Scratch visit hither to get full education on installing Scratch.

To learn most the Scratch interface, visit hither.

We have developed these Scratch extensions containing special blocks through which you tin can command your evive in Scratch:

Arduino: These blocks control the basic input, output and advice of evive like digital and analog input/output, serial advice, PWM output, etc.
evive Inbuilt Functions: Using this block yous can control the bones functionalities of evive like tactile-switches, slide-switches, potentiometer,motors, 5-way navigation central, bear on inputs and Real Time Clock.
evive TFT Screen: Using this block you can control the TFT brandish of evive.
evive App: Using this block you can communicate with the Mobile App.
evive Tinkering: These cake are used to interface various sensors and actuators.

In Scratch, there are two modes in which you tin work:

Arduino Mode: Nether Arduino style, the instruction blocks volition exist tranfer to Arduino C++ into Arduino IDe, and user could change code in Arduino IDe, and then upload the code into Robot. In that case, the Robot is running offline and it can not interact with Scratch's stage.
Scratch Mode: Under Scratch mode which is defualt mode when mBlock beginning, mBlock could program robot through USB series port, the robot is running a program could communicate with mBlock, and robot could intercate with Stage and create more insteresting projects and animations.

In this project we are not using any scratch characteristic and want to run evive independent of your computer, hence we have to work in Arduino manner.

Footstep 4: Scratch Script

In this project we are going to utilise evive menu to control motor. To upload the firmware from Scratch, you just have to use a cake 'Upload firmware' from evive Inbuilt Function extension along with evive Plan.

The script is shown below:

Upload the code to evive.

Step 5: Making Cool drawings

Later on uploading the code, you will observe a carte du jour on evive TFT screen. To control a DC motor, the user have to navigate in Control, select Motor. And so select whether you want to control motor though Channel one or Channel 2 or both the Channels (in our case we want to control Channel i). Then yous can come across the motor command console, where you can control the direction of the motor using slide switch and the speed (PWM) of the motor using potentiometer.

The project is complete. Let'south make cool drawings . You just have to put a marker on the rotating paper (very steadily), and the motor volition practise the residue of the piece of work. Shift the center of the rotating newspaper or move marker to brand artistic drawing.

Turntable