I was trying to sort out the wireing on the board when I manage to blow one of the H-bridges on the board - opps. Ian then comes over and tries to figure out the wiring electrically. and in the process manages to zap the board and over the course of the day 4 more h-bridges start smoking.
I get panicked by this and start pulling together plan b. This as 2 parts
part one get 4 motor stepper shield [ here or here ] or [ here for two ] the down side is it looks like you can't by then prebuilt (boo).
The second part is to balance one ball (orange) against another ( blue), this means we can run 2 balls from one motor meaning 12 motors in all or 2 per row, so I just need 3 separate arduinios with 3 separate power supplies.
Plan C involves replacing the balls with lighter ones.
Options to reduce power1. Use lighter ballsGymnic Home & Office Opti Swiss Ball
So by the end of the day Ian managed to get the up cut off switches working. I'm hoping to do a software fix to make the right ones work. The problem is I can't work on it on Monday/Tuesday.
Over lunch we talked about forgetting the whole thing. I pointed out we have made the vidieo already.
Tried, but while I was working on the cloud someone came in who wanted to use the cloud in a photo shoot about signing a memorandum of understanding. Life is too weird.
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