WEEK 6 - Journal

Ideation

Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you? (Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)

Searching for the idea

I was impressed by self-parking cars and how cars can detect the distances and turn on their alarm when they get closer to anybody, so I used to make a simple parking sensor using an Ultrasonic sensor and buzzer.

Tool Chain

I just used

1- Arduino UNO to generate signals

2- Buzzer to generate sound

3- Ultrasonic sensor to detect the distance

4- wires and breadboard to connect the circuit

Arduino Uno

Buzzer

Breadboard

Wires

Ultrasonic sensor

datasheet

Design/Preparation Process

TINKER CAD

By using Tinker Cad software, design and test the circuit before implement it physically

Sample VS Final prouduct

Buzzer ON

Buzzer OFF

Code blocks By TINKERCAD

Actual circuit

VID_20220311_095949.mp4

Overcoming Challenges

After I designed the circuit on Tinkercad, I started to connect the actual circuit, then I realized that I have used the 3 pins sensor instead the 4 pins, that lead me to rebuild the circuit and the code again and consume some time

Community of Learning

Find a weirdo like you and never let them go

Me and my colleagues used to make a waving hand using ultra sonic sensor, so we made a well known Video game character which say " some body help me!!" it was very nice and funny experience

Final Project

How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?

The way that we dealt with a new component like the ultrasonic sensor for the first time at the session make me feel more confident to search and learn about any unknown component and handle it

parking sensor / Arduino code

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