Brainstorming

Group members:
Dong Anh Nguyen
Tyler Bussone
Vineeth Madala

In this first meeting, we sat together and discussed many different ideas about what we should do with the Arduino. We came up with a few different ideas like a universal remote, GPS tracker, a crane, etc. The most interesting but simple idea we came up with is to be able to program the Arduino write and/or scribe words and shapes onto a piece of paper or whiteboard.  This function would be useful for people who are paralyzed or have really bad arthritis in which they have lost the ability to write with a pen or pencil.  It could simply be used a the "perfect circle maker" because everyone knows the struggles of drawing a perfect circle.  For this, the Arduino needs to be programmable to draw a perfect circle of a designated radius. This idea requires communication between the Arduino and the parts but also requires movement of some sort whether it be just an arm or an autonomous bot.  For the "perfect circle maker" a stepper motor could be used to convert steps into degrees or radians which would allow the Arduino to draw only fractions of a circle (arc lengths).  In essence the stepper motor is used as a convertor allowing the Arduino to measure angles.