The assignment idea is to design, simulate, and build a simple electronic device that performs two actions.
As the weather is hot these days so I thought of a fan or a blower with a LED.
The software wasTinkerCad Circut to design and simulate the electronic circuit.
The material is cardboard and black tape to make the outer box.
The electronics component I used:
DC fan 5V
LED
Resistor
M-M wires
Crocodile wires.
ON/OFF switch
5V adabtor
Breadboard
AVO
Simulation
I used TinkerCad to simulate the circuit and make sure that the wiring is in the right way.
I decided to use a 5V adapter as a power supply as I will light one LED that operate on 3.3V max so I will put a resistor in series, and a DC fan in parallel which will need 5V only.
Finally, tested the functionality by simulating the circuit as shown in the video.
First, I made it using test board to check that everything is okay.
I used this old box and change its color using black tape.
I did the circuit again but using small test boards to but it inside the box.
Here we are.
I am familiar with electronics and electricity because of my study and my background so this week was easy, but the good thing is that I faced a problem that I learned from.
While doing the assignment, I made a small mistake in wiring the switch so I used the Avometer as the instructor advised us in the tutorials to check that everything was okay and I did not burn any components.
After many trials o visually tracking the circuit, I found the problem when I followed the wiring diagram in TinkerCad.
When there was a problem in wiring the switch.
My new friend
This week, I used TinkerCad which helped me with the wiring, and saved time, and components.
Usually, I am using proteus but TinkerCad is much easier.
This week, we had a lot of fun and entertainment, I enjoyed it more than any other week.
While designing the sumo robot in the makathon during our end-of-week session, I faced the problem of removing lines, but my colleague Sama told me about this amazing feature so I did not need to export it again and make it undefined.
It will remove the bold red line.
The coolest thing this week was the makathon, me and my colleague Sama managed to design the robot and win.
Our beautiful robot YOYO.