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This is my first major engineering project where many different fields were involved. I knew since very young that I wanted to be engineer, or invetor like I said when I was young. This involved using an arduino to control 2 motors, 4 electronic relays and 4 light sensors. The goal was to make a solar panel follow the sun, to get the most energy out of it. I also had to design the structure of the panel, and the electronic circuit to control the motors. I also had to make a program to control the arduino, and to make the solar panel follow the sun. This project was a great success, and I learned a lot from it. It involved wood working, testing, bug fixing, and a lot of programming.

This was a team project, in team of 5, I had to orient the solar pannel but the other team member had other subsystems to work on. The other subsystems were the washing the solar pannel and other devices to make the solar pannel more efficient or make the system work better.

Final project working

The video of the final project following the light of my phone

Electric cylinder

Electric cylinder subsystem working

CAD design

Cad design of the full team project

Static Stress simulation

Stress simulation of the wind on the solar pannel

Dyamic Stress simulation

Dynamic Stress simulation of the wind on the rotating solar pannel

Wind simulation

Rotating solar pannel with wind simulation