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Video of our Ukulele project

The video shows how our ukulele project works. It plays an E minor chord and a B major chord. The ukulele strums all four strings now instead of plucking two strings. Here is the link .

Weekly Progress

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Nomina holding the latest version of our project The team's ukulele project now has functioning parts.  Some problems that occurred were the stepper motor not strong enough to rotate the pegs to its tighter position. We fixed that by reducing the stepper motor speed. We have attached all the stepper motors onto the board. Here are two videos of our project in motion: Video1 of our progress Video2 Since we are able to control all four stepper motors, we have decided to strum with one servo instead of picking each string with two servos. We could play a chord and strum. We have also abandoned the old broken bridge because it failed us. We have replaced it with a more sturdier box around the ukulele. Out with the old

Week 6

The stepper motors works. We just need the code to control it. We have it connected using a Big EasyDriver. It does not work with our EasyDriver but that's because the pins are loose and needs soldering. So far we only have a code that rotates our stepper motor in one direction. We need to program it to go the other direction.