Digital Project
Digital Project
First Subpage Post - 10/31/24
Link to Python Exercises 1 : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1odUgss0S1FH-8sFwEBCDqojpKdTijy1wGEv3EWXoCck/edit?tab=t.0
Something I learned about during this exercise was the importance of commenting. Commenting is extremely helpful for people looking at your code and being able to decipher what part of the code will do what.
Some thing that is still puzzling to me is how to string together a bunch of different values in a sentence and how exactly to use the str variable.
Second Subpage Post - 11/4/24
Link to Python Exercises 2: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1To7Kaxj0nbSUFZuI93XEvHbqoE8Hixv2KNw2Saq7iBY/edit?tab=t.0
Something I learned in this exercise was how to use lists and how to print them and compare them in the correct manner.
Something that I want to learn more about is how we are going to use all of these exercises to create our digital projects.
Microcontroller Challenges - 11/11/24
Gloria and I both worked on figuring out how to project the weather on a microcontroller. One of our main challenges in doing this was getting an API key since a lot of the websites we tried to use seemed to need subscriptions. With Kai's help we were able to bypass all the subscriptions stuff and get our API key. We also had a problem with actually getting the code to work after getting the API key. However, after checking the comments on the code, we could see what we needed to input into the code for it to work.
Plan for Digital Project
For my Digital Project, I plan to make a weather forecast. I know we already had a challenge that was similar to this, but I was thinking that I could 3D print some sort of TV and then stick the digital project inside it. So it is like watching a mini TV that tells the me the weather. I will be using the same microcontroller that we used for prior projects and I probably won't need any additional electronics other than the 3D printer. And this will be a standalone project and won't have anything to do with my speaker.
Final Digital Project Post
For my digital project I made a mini TV that tells the weather in San Mateo, which is the city that I live in. During this process I learned a lot on attaining API codes and using the actual coordinates of my house to project the correct weather on the TV. Some challenges that I had was actually writing the code, and I got help from Kai since I have little experience with Python.