Hello all,
I am tasked with using a potentiometer to act as a joystick as a project.
Part of the project must include additional complexity to the system design.
Any thoughts on how to increase the complexity of this project. Using LED's and using more than 1 motor in the project has been brainstormed so far.
Thanks for any comments. 
A pot is pretty much a half joystick. Learn how to make it control the movement of the motor. Know that a motor driver, inverter, is needed.
The duplicate the build, 2 pots and 2 motors.
Let one motor move a trolley in X direction and the other motor in the Y direction.... Add a pen to the trolley.... A plotter maybe .
You can use two LEDs.
LED one will gradually increase its brightness during one second, stay fully ON for one second and then dim gradually for another second until fully OFF for another second. Cycle will take four seconds with no manual intervention.
OFF-increasing-ON-decreasing-OFF-…
All four time intervals should be easily changed in the code.
A second LED simply blinks with a 50% cycle with its frequency controlled by the pot.
As usual, the only literals allowed in the code are 0 and 1. All others must be named constants. Also, reasonable variable/function names should be used.
You can add a motor that turns on for exactly 5 seconds every time the pot increases through half its value. The motor will turn off even though the pot is still in its upper half.
The second LED logic should not be affected by the motor logic in any way.
Should I go on?
Yes.
The pot is the main element of the project where it will control the motor speed.
Adding additional complexity's to the project is what I am looking for.
Thanks for the comment.
Is there a microcontroller involved?
no. there is no microcontroller used.
Only a H-bridge in the circuit to control the motors direction and speed
What happened to your creativity?
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