Arduino

The integration of the Arduino into my project was conceptually pretty easy. It expands on the system I envisioned last week in which the segmented roof of the bus stop would open up to encourage people to stand closer to the road as the bus approached. Thus, the rotation of the Arduino would just facilitate the rotation of the roof panels.

I think it is more interesting, however, to propose an alternate set of configurations that do not simply provide rotation to a building element. Rather, if these elements need to move in a straight line, how do we use the rotational movement of the Arduino to facilitate that? How would  we take the rotational movement and amplify it, if we do not want a one to one correlation between the movement of the element and the Arduino? My first instinct is to use a series of gears to make this movement possible. By making a geared track on a wall, we can use a gear mounted on the Arduino to move it in a straight line. Or if we wanted to amplify the movement of the Arduino we would use a small gear on the motor, and a large gear on the element that we are trying to move. While the torque would certainly burn out the tiny motor that we have, I think that these are much more interesting questions than simply integrating the motor into my preexisting design.