Sunday, 18 December 2011

THEORY........TO......... PRACTICALS.....


Today was a totally different day when compared to the other days. We made an attempt to make a practical approach of what we have learned so far. Sir gave us 8 questions and asked us to solve two questions in groups with two in each group. Each group was to solve two different questions and there should be a question from octave and one from electronics .

                      The questions chosen by my group are given below,
1. Identify the brightest point in an image using octave.
2. Design and implement circuit that will turn on a DC motor in the presence of light source.

                   For finding the brightest point we thought of adding the RGB factor of each pixel and then compare with an initially assigned maximum value. If the sum obtained from a particular pixel is found to be greater than the maximum value then it will be substituted in the max variable. Executing this logic in two loops to navigate through row and column and a third loop to add the RGB factor of each pixel, the brightest point will be obtained. We could, to an extent implement the code and we tried it with two images.  


Next attempt was to design the electronic circuit


              
We used the circuit given above to make the motor run in the presence of light.
                    Light dependent resistor also called an LDR is a resistor whose resistance value depends on the light falling on it. When the light falls on the resistor its effective resistance decreases and vice versa. We need a high resistance value at the base for better performance of the motor. That was in fact the most challenging part about the circuit. The circuit was wired up properly but the LDR was not seen to get properly activated and hence the motor was not properly seen to be working. 

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