Cat Paw

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 This work is called Cat Paw. The main intention of this was to create a cute motorized cat that moves its paw up and down. Referencing the beckoning cat, this project uses a motor along with a joystick to control the paw. Along with the cat is a fish that can easily get knocked down. The story is of a playful cat messing aggressively with a fish. 

//cat code

#define ENABLE 5

#define DIRA 3

#define DIRB 4

int joyStickPin = A0;

int drift = 20;

int i;

 

void setup() {

  //---set pin direction

  pinMode(ENABLE,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(DIRA,OUTPUT);

  pinMode(DIRB,OUTPUT);

  pinMode (joyStickPin, INPUT_PULLUP);

  Serial.begin(9600);

}

void loop() {

  //first get the up or down of the joy stick  between 1023 and 0 and then remap it to ... -255 to 255 for the motor if it's 0 - 255 it's down paw, if it's -255 through 0 it's up paw

  int inputY = MapValues(); //get a return value that will determine if up or down and how fast up or down

  Serial.println(inputY);

  if(inputY > drift){

    analogWrite(ENABLE,abs(inputY)); // enable amount

    digitalWrite(DIRA,HIGH); //down paw

    digitalWrite(DIRB,LOW);

     //delay(50);

  }

  else if(inputY <= drift && inputY >= -drift ){

    digitalWrite(ENABLE, LOW); //paw off, might need some fall off

    // delay(50);

 

  }

  else if (inputY < -drift ){

    analogWrite(ENABLE,abs(inputY)); // enable amount

    digitalWrite(DIRA,LOW);  //up paw

    digitalWrite(DIRB,HIGH);

     //delay(50);

  }

   

  }

  int MapValues(){

Serial.println(analogRead(joyStickPin));

  int mapStick = map(analogRead(joyStickPin), 0, 1023, -200, 200);

      Serial.println("Mapped Input: ");

  return mapStick;

}