list of ten:

1. motion detector

2. clap light

3. lights that react to music

4. sound sensor

5. make a rainbow light flicker between white and rainbow                                                                                      

6. spinning rainbow

7. flash lights when you press a button

8. white dots and then a flash of rainbow colors

9. explosion

10. rainbow flash

Planning Questions

Are you working by yourself or in a team?

myself

What materials will you need for your project?

Circuit playground express

What is your plan to create in this project?

a flashlight kind thing that turns on when you shake it

What unique qualities will your project have?

it won't just turn on randomly it will be provoked 

• Using the Adafruit Circuit Playground, I created flashing lights and built games that I could play with my friends. I even set it up so I’d win most of the time—just to make it a little more fun and competitive. It was a cool way to experiment and see what I could make the device do.

• During the process, I also learned how to make music with the Circuit Playground and figured out how to get it to react to loud noises. That added a fun interactive element and helped me understand how the sensors work.

• In class, we focused on seven standards: Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project connects most with the Knowledge Constructor standard because I had to look up tutorials and figure out how to create certain programs and games. It took a bit of research, but it helped me learn more about coding and how the Circuit Playground works.

• One of the challenges I faced was figuring out how to use certain codes and variables. At first, it was a little confusing, but I used tutorials and remembered some things from working with micro:bit earlier in the year. That helped me get through it and understand how everything fit together.

• If I could do this project again, I’d try not to procrastinate so much. There were times I didn’t really feel like doing the work, and it slowed me down. If I had used my time better, I could’ve made more projects or tried out more features.

• At Hastings High School, the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Program offers areas like Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing. My project connects to the Computer Programming pathway since I spent most of my time writing and testing code.

• It also ties into real-world careers like web development, where coding is a huge part of the job. Just like I had to write code to make the Circuit Playground work, web developers have to code how websites function. Doing this project gave me a better idea of what a job in that field might be like.

I used ChatGPT to make most of the paragraphs, with a little tweaking in between