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    Blinky Ball Project

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    Naman Goyal
    This document describes the Blinky Ball Project which uses a printed circuit board cut into a semicircular shape with a center cutout, shift register IC 74HC595, LEDs, resistors, dual-axis accelerometer, and battery. The shift register is the main IC used to extend the number of output pins from the Arduino board and control the 8 LEDs. The algorithm initializes the shift register pins as outputs, sets the accelerometer pins as analog inputs, declares a function to convert accelerometer raw X and Y input values to actual acceleration values. It then checks the acceleration values in the loop to gradually light LEDs from the bottom up as acceleration decreases in the Y direction and gradually turn them off from the top

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    Blinky Ball Project

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    This document describes the Blinky Ball Project which uses a printed circuit board cut into a semicircular shape with a center cutout, shift register IC 74HC595, LEDs, resistors, dual-axis accelerometer, and battery. The shift register is the main IC used to extend the number of output pins from the Arduino board and control the 8 LEDs. The algorithm initializes the shift register pins as outputs, sets the accelerometer pins as analog inputs, declares a function to convert accelerometer raw X and Y input values to actual acceleration values. It then checks the acceleration values in the loop to gradually light LEDs from the bottom up as acceleration decreases in the Y direction and gradually turn them off from the top

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    This document describes the Blinky Ball Project which uses a printed circuit board cut into a semicircular shape with a center cutout, shift register IC 74HC595, LEDs, resistors, dual-axis accelerometer, and battery. The shift register is the main IC used to extend the number of output pins from the Arduino board and control the 8 LEDs. The algorithm initializes the shift register pins as outputs, sets the accelerometer pins as analog inputs, declares a function to convert accelerometer raw X and Y input values to actual acceleration values. It then checks the acceleration values in the loop to gradually light LEDs from the bottom up as acceleration decreases in the Y direction and gradually turn them off from the top

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    Blinky Ball Project

    Uploaded by

    Naman Goyal
    This document describes the Blinky Ball Project which uses a printed circuit board cut into a semicircular shape with a center cutout, shift register IC 74HC595, LEDs, resistors, dual-axis accelerometer, and battery. The shift register is the main IC used to extend the number of output pins from the Arduino board and control the 8 LEDs. The algorithm initializes the shift register pins as outputs, sets the accelerometer pins as analog inputs, declares a function to convert accelerometer raw X and Y input values to actual acceleration values. It then checks the acceleration values in the loop to gradually light LEDs from the bottom up as acceleration decreases in the Y direction and gradually turn them off from the top

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    Blinky Ball Project

    Components
    1. Printed Circuit Board(Cut in semicircular shape with cutout in center)
    2. Shift Register 74HC595
    3. LEDs and Resistors
    4. Dual Axis Accelerometer
    5. Battery

    Main IC used
    1. Shift register - Sometimes we run out of pins in Arduino board. So Shift
    registers helps in extending number of output pins (just like multiplug). Shift
    register mainly used here is 74HC595. This is an "8-bit serial-in, serial or
    parallel-out shift register with output latches; 3-state". 3 states are LOW, HIGH
    and HIGH IMPEDANCE. We can use it to control 8 outputs at a time while
    taking only a few pins on microcontroller (Arduino). We can link multiple
    registers together to extend output even more. There are 2 types of pins
    Clock pin and Latch Pin. When Clock pin goes from Low to High, Shift
    Register reads data from data pin and stores it in some internal memory.
    When latch pin goes from LOW to HIGH the stored data gets shifted from shift
    registers to output pins, thus lighting the LEDs.

    Algorithm
    Initialize clockpin, datapin, latchpin of shift register IC and declare them as OUTPUT
    in setup () method; Set X & Y pins of accelerometer as Analog INPUTS in setup ()
    method. Declare an accelerometer function to change the raw inputs X & Y from
    accelerometer to actual acceleration in X & Y direction. Now in the loop () method
    check the acceleration in X & Y direction using the accelerometer function created
    before. First of all we have to orient the accelerometer in the ball so that in the idle
    position when leds are not glowing or only glowing at poles (depends on us) its Yaxis is in upward direction and X-axis is any direction. Now in the loop() method we
    have to check the accelerations in X & Y direction using accelerometer function and
    if magnitude of acceleration in y direction decreases led starts glowing and stays on
    one by one in upward direction gradually, and when the acceleration becomes 0 turn
    on all the LEDs. Check when acceleration starts increasing in y direction start turning

    off the LEDs from initial bottom position gradually such that when the acceleration in
    Y direction is equal to g(acc. due to gravity) only the bottom most LED is glowing.
    Here we will use the byte datatype to send the output signals to the shift register so
    as to control the LEDs connected to it.

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