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Re: Solar Tracker
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Originally Posted by Sh1ine View Post
Sorry I should have been more specific. I am a teacher I am trying to develop an activity for my POE class to use a solar tracker to move a set of Harbor Freight Solar panels to follow the sun. I teach digital electronics as well, and we use Arduino (great system) for that class. I have use an Arduino and PS3 controller to control robots before so that programming would be simple. However, I am trying to avoid programming because I do not have the time in the year to allocate teaching my students to program the system. If I have to I could program the microcontroller myself and have them follow some simple instructions to connect their system to the microcontroller but I want to avoid that if possible.
What's your time frame for this? This sounds like an awesome activity. Maybe we (growingSTEMS™) can help. Shoot me a PM and we can discuss this in more detail over email.
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