CRANE CONTROLLED VIA A MICROCONTROLLER THROUGH A NETWORK

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CRANE CONTROLLED VIA A MICROCONTROLLER THROUGH A
NETWORK

• Ron Reese
• EKU, Dept. of Technology
• CEN

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OUTLINE

• Motivation
• Introduction
• Problem statement
• Microcontroller
• Solution
• Results

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MOTIVATION

• Moving requires a lot of strainious movement that
  can hurt you.
• Need at least 4 people to efficiently move in one
  day.
• I currently live in a third story apartment and
  soon will need to move out.

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INTRODUCTION

• Past experience tells us all how painful it can
  be to move.
• Paying someone to move your belongings can be
  costly, besides the issue of trusting someone
  else with your things.

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PROBLEM STATEMENT

• How can this process be made easier on the people
  moving.
• How to move heavier items without having to pay
  someone else to do it.

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PROPOSED SOLUTION

• Take some metal bars.
• A garage door opener.
• Go to parallax and get some nice sensors and a
  microcontroller.
• Put it all together to control the crane's
  stopping at the top and bottom.

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PROPOSED SOLUTION cont.

• Hall Effect Sensor.

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PROPOSED SOLUTION cont.

• PING, Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

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PROPOSED SOLUTION cont.

• Lalim, Parrallel Port Control Basic Server side.

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PROPOSED SOLUTION cont.

• Micro-controller program.
• Lalim, client side.

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PROPOSED SOLUTION cont.

• Controlling the garage door opener limiters.

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PROPOSED SOLUTION cont.

• Basic Stamp 2sx micro-controller with all the
  headaches included.

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RESULTS

• Motor seems to heat up, but it is functional and
  capable of lifting 200 lbs. (anyone need to move?)

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CONCLUSIONS

• This is a great tool for lifting anything under
  200 lbs. And moving it around (when I put wheels
  on the crane).
• I have learnt 10,000 ways how not to make an
  operable crane, (Thomas Edison), and about an
  hour ago one way to make it work.

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CONCLUSIONS cont.

• It has been a great experience to put all the
  previous knowledge of this major together to
  build something and most of all seeing it work.

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FUTURE WORK

• In the future maybe someone could make this
  better by making the crane mobile, so that the
  load may be transported to another location.
• Comments, question?

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Thanks

• Special thanks to
• Professors Kilgore, Vigs, Richardson.
• Chen for the soldering.
• Landon, Dylan and Danny for making the crane
  structure.