Electrical Connections on the 3D Printed IPad Mount

I am currently an Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student at Washington State University. In our final year, we complete a course called senior design. For my team’s senior design project we were tasked with creating an Assistive Device for the Seeing Impaired.

What that actually meant was a remotely controlled iPad device stand that could pan, tilt, and move up and down. When a sight impaired person looses something in their home, they have to wait for a relative to come help them find it. This is a significant set back and inconvenience to the life of the sight impaired person. Our goal was to create a system where a sighted family member could log in from where ever they are, and control a pan, tilt, and vertical movement iPad mount in the sight impaired person's home. This system would provide a video feed so that they two parties can communicate.

This instructable will go over the electrical connections.

Note: This instructable is a work in progress so there are more photos links and instructions to come.

Since all the connections will be really hard to see in my photos I've included a diagram that shows what wires need to be attached to what pins.

For now it is drawn on a piece of paper. Rest assured soon I will add a much clearer graphic.

First you will need to attach the limit switches and slide switch.

Next connect the stepper motor to the PmodSTEP.

Lastly you will need to connect everything to the WF32.

I would very much suggest that you do some wire management. No one likes a big mess of wires. I usually use lots of zipties.