Week 6 - Journal

It is hard to focus on two things at the same time, Imagine your doing some push-ups and focusing on how many times you do push-ups that will affect your performance, So I decided to help you by making a smart device that will count the push-ups instead of you.

This will help me personally because I play a lot of push-ups at home

I used tinkercad to draw the project schematic and implement the circuit to check its functionality.

So, I started to connect components like the ultrasonic sensor, LCD, and push button.

ultrasonic: connected its VCC, and GND to the breadboard and trigger, echo Pin to the Arduino, and make a simple code that checks the functionality of the sensor as I need or not.

I used the push button to reset the counter to zero to be more realistic.

So if you want to start the counter from zero again just click on the push button.

I started to connect the components as the schematic. I connected the ultrasonic, push button, and LCD to the breadboard and Arduino.

The problem I faced was that the counter was inaccurate and it gives 1 or more at the same time.
The Solution: I saw this tutorial to tell me that I must put a small delay (250) to give ultrasonic a little time to calculate distance correctly.

I got familiar with coding and Arduino, and I think that will help me a lot in my final project because the two skill is essential in my final project.

Making the Hand Waving cardboard project in the offline session.