Advanced Lesson 2 Lucky Cat

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Introduction

Have you ever seen a lucky cat waving her arm at the counter of a roadside shop? In this lesson, we will use a very interesting device, servo to assemble a lucky cat.

Components

Circuit

In this lesson, we just need a Servo to help assemble a lucky cat. Connect the yellow wire of servo to P0, the red wire to 3V3 and another wire to GND.

Programming Steps

Step 1

Click Create variable button to create a variable, servo.

Step 2

Assign the value of pin P0 to the variable servo, which is used in place of P0 in the following codes.

Step 3

Drag a count with i from 1 to 10 by 1 block from the Loops category to the Forever block.

Step 4

Then change the parameter to count with I from -45 to 45 by 10. This step means that the variable i ranges from minus 45 to plus 45 at the rate of 10.

Step 5

Under the Raspberry Pi category, we can find the servo set P0 angle 0 block then put it into do block. Next, put the servo block from the Variables category into P0; variable i to number 0 as shown below. Then the delay value is set to 3 ms.

Step 6

After the lucky cat’s arm turns from -45 to 45 degrees, let it stay at 45 degrees for 800ms (0.8s).

Step 7

In the same way, we should put the lucky cat’s arm back to -45 degrees for 800 ms.

Step 8

Save the project and flash it into the Raspberry Pi (refer to lesson 0 for details).  When the code is uploaded successfully, you will see the repetitive swing of lucky cat’s arm.

Fold Cardboard

Step 1

Take out the matching cardboard of this lesson.

Step 2

To achieve the desired effect, the arm of the lucky cat should be attached on the servo with double-sided tape.

Step 3

Stick the servo on the back of the cat.

Step 4

Fold the bracket of the lucky cat according to the creases on the cardboard. Then stick it to the back of servo.

Step 5

In this lesson, only one servo is used. In operation, you can directly mount the servo on the Raspberry Pi board.