7P7- circuit playground

1) A timer-like thing.

2) something to give somebody a epileptic attack <3!

3) something that makes sound - maybe a piano like thing.

4) spinny lights (goes in circles).

5) very bright light because why not..?

6) a memory based game!

7) simon says ( pretty much kinda like #6)!

8) just something that makes a cool pattern!

9) maybe somehow I could use morse code?

10) something where I could flood the thing - like I'll use a sensor to make "water" go up in a way?

Am I working by myself?

Yes, I'll be working on my own.

What am I going to make?

I'll make multiple small projects, and maybe some big ones.

What do I need?

I'm going to need the adafruit website and circuit playground

What makes my project unique?

I'll try my best to be as origanal as possible.

Day one

I started by looking around the website to make the micro:bit-like project, and also looked at a friend of mine's work.

Day two

I've made two projects, one that is just for pure annoyance (It flashes really bright and makes an annoying sound), and the other was simon says (I'm not sure how to code correct or incorrect answers, so you can really do next to anything)

Day three

today I did three projects,

1) color mixing,

2) a gambling type game,

3) a flood

all these projects were fun to make, but the best one out of all three from today was the color mixing one, as it functioned the best and also was fun to do.

Day four

I've made one project that took up most of the time, as I couldn't get the mechanic at the end (after shaking) to be how I wanted.

Day five

I made two more projects today, one where all it does is spin in a circle (and change colors), and the other shake whenever you shake it (depending on what side you shake it on, the animation is slightly different).

Day six

I made three more projects today, one that shows 3 randomly chosen pride flags (because why not?), another color mixing thing but with a better animation, and a pet thing ( but it only changes when you shake it... it gets mad)

My Movie 8.mov

project showcase

This project is my favorite out of them all, as I liked making it, despite it's simplicity, I found it to be somewhat entertaining.

Using the website, adafruit, and a circuit playground, I created many different and unique projects. This is because I was enjoying my time creating so many different and interesting projects, trying to make them all able to differentiate from one another, adding many different effects and mechanics.

During this process, I learned how to make more things than I did with micro:bit. I learned more about coding and how to make simple things like this be more complex than they may seem.

The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to digital citizen because I used my technology correctly and safely, I treated my circuit playground equipment with respect, knowing that it doesn't belong to me.

A challenge I overcame on this project was coming up with even more ideas than I have already listed, as I made many projects in one day, and there isn't many original ideas I was able to come up with due to the simplicity of adafruit and the circuit playground. I was able to overcome this challenge by taking inspiration from many other projects over time and using previous ideas and altering them by making them different and better.

Given a chance to do this again, I would change the pet-like thing that I made. The reason why I would change it is because I don't really like how simple it is, as it only had one function put into it. Another reason is because I already made something similar to it when making the micro:bit.

Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing. My project connects to the computer programing CTE program at Hastings High School.

My project connects to careers in game development because all of the projects I've made with Adafruit and Circuit Playground involved almost a game-like premise.

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