Haptic motor controllers

I started my first wearable circuits project.

This is a great application of ChatGPT. I can:

• Ask it how to approach the project and whether it’s doable for a beginner
• Ask it for basic circuit schematics
• Ask it why certain wires need to be connected to certain parts
• Learn as I work, by being curious and asking it to walk me through what’s going on
• Upload pictures of my wiring and ask what I did wrong
• Ask it to help me write Arduino code

I thought that if I had an Adafruit Flora, a battery pack, and wiring, I could control the little vibrating motors. But it turns out that the microcontroller sends too much power. Technically, I could get it to vibrate, but the LOW setting wasn’t low enough, so I couldn’t get it to turn off. Plus, keeping it at that power runs the risk of breaking the motors.

To fix this, I needed to get a haptic motor controller. Now I can keep working on my project!