Today, we started out Green Tech class by taking a quiz. he quiz was four questions taken from thing posted on our weblogs. After this, Lucas, Awe and I went down to the workshop to play around with the RFID kit. The first thing we did was test the +5V output on the phidgets RFID reader. We needed to do this to make sure we can get the reader to open a gate or unlock a door. To do this we plugged in the motor in the picture on the right, to the RFID reader. The red wire being positive, the black wire being negative and yellow being the ground wire. The motor should have started running when we ran the RFID tag by the reader but we did something wrong and so it did not work.
The second thing we did down in the workshop was try to control the RFID reader wirelessly. To do this we plugged the phidgets motor control board into the RFID reader, the USB chord was connected from the phidgets motor control board to the RFID reader, and we had the power chord connected to the power source on the phidgets motor contol board and to an outlet on the wall. Later, to set up the wireless control, we plugged in a bluse USB chord connecting the computer and the phidgets motor control board. Also, we had to update firmwire and reboot my computer on phidgetsbc.local. We didn't get the this working either so next class we will continue working on getting the wireless connection along with the motor working.
cbradley
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