Solar Tracking Array

During the spring semester of 2022, I was the leader of a team of 7 mechanical engineers performing and completing many experiments and projects. One such project challenged us to design, fabricate, and program a solar tracking array in 6 hours of lab time.

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We were only provided with the following items:

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• Arduino

• Solar cell

• Potentiometer

• 2 motors

• Adafruit motor shield

• Cadmium resistor (photoresistor)

• Breadboard

• ADS1015 Analog to Digital converter

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Skills learned/improved by the end of the project:

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• Arduino programming

• Electrical engineering

• Product design

• PCB designing and manufacturing

• Optimizing energy consumption

• Hardware fabrication and validation

• Project management

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