11/5/18 WEEK 2

This week I was able to finish my research and planning for testing and undergo some good testing on the parts which I am able to use. I found an actuator of this small scale is hard to come by and the Servo worked well to control my barrier arm. The servo produced a good amount of torque to easily overcome heavy barrier arms, this opens up my choices of barrier arms to the metals - I chose to use aluminium as my barrier arm because of its structural strength and proffesionality. I also found an LDR is the best option for controlling my night light (due to it needing to be automated and a timer does not take into account different weather conditions (and could go out of time)). I tested with a small bit of code I uploaded to my Arduino Uno.

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