Blog #2 Preparation
This week I spent time searching for solutions for food waste crusher and DC motor to drive it. Because the original idea is to drive with 12 V DC motor for future expansion for solar cell and battery. I had select meat grinder for use as food crusher as in the picture.
You can find these from any online store. I ordered it from a local e-commerce shop. Please note that there are many sizes. I selected #22 #12 will be too small.
And I ordered 12 v DC motor with high torque from banggod.com
I selected 12 RPM for 20Kg.cm Torgue. hope it’s enough for food crusher. I searched youtube and found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J78S27l1bqk which uses 12 V DC motor to drive meat grinder which can prove that my concepts should work.
While I am waiting for orders to come. I just got all Infineon kits. I start to explore and see which part will be used in my project. So far I had selected these parts for my project.
- XMC 4700 Relax Lit kit for Contro board. Because of the size and supported by Arduino.
- DC Motor shield for Motor Control.
- TLC493D 3DSense for Control Switch and function selection.
For Arduino support Infineon go to https://github.com/Infineon/XMC-for-Arduino/wiki/Implementation-in-Arduino-IDE for instruction how to add XMC support for Arduino.
I am using MAC and I need to download Segger driver for MAC https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink before can program in Arduino IDE. I had installed and test simple Blink program. So far so good.
Next step
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Waiting for meat grinder and DC motor. I will start looking into using 3D Sense for control switch and function selection.