For an interesting project with younger people or just for fun, you can build a device that tracks the sunlight outdoors or any other strong source of light. By using an Arduino that measures the levels from five light-dependent resistors, it can determine from
For an interesting project with younger people or just for fun, you can build a device that tracks the sunlight outdoors or any other strong source of light. By using an Arduino that measures the levels from five light-dependent resistors, it can determine from which direction the light is the strongest. It then controls two continuous-rotation servos to move the device in the direction towards the light source. Although the creators used a... lot of cardboard, you can recreate it from anything spare. For example:
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