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)

paper lamps

This week assignment's idea is building and programing a smart circuit using an Arduino UNO which reads a signal from an input component to control an action component using Code Blocks.

As i love lights and i didn't love to sleep in the dark , My idea is making a lamp emits different colors when the lights off.

Inspiration

Tool Chain

Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?

I used tinker cad to design and simulate the circuit , the resistor calculator to calculate the ohm of resistor and Arduino IDE to download the code on the Arduino UNO.

Materials : I used a 5 volt adapter , Arduino UNO , 3 pin Photo resistor LDR Module , RGB led , 3 resistors 220 ohm , Mini breadboard , Jumper wires , cardboard , one sheet of a4 paper .

Arduino IDE

Tinker cad

Resistor calculator

Design/Preparation Process

Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?

Tinkercad circuit

I start to design and simulate the circuit using Tinker cad to make sure that everything work.

I connect photoresistor terminal 1 to pin 8 and i also put 4.7kohm and take another wire from terminal 1 and connected it with GND then i connect terminal 2 to Arduino vcc to 5v pin , next i put RGB led and connected the 3 terminals (red,blue,green) with 3 resistors (220 ohm) and connect the red terminal with pin 7 , the blue terminal with pin 6 , the green terminal with pin 5 then connect the cathode terminal to GND pin.

Code blocks (1)

Code blocks (3)

Code blocks (2)

I used if condition to read the digital pin 8 that connected with the photoresistor led if it low ( light is off ) :
1- Blue color will emits for 15 sec
2-Green color will emits for 15 sec
3- Red color will emits for 15 sec
4- purple color will emits for 15 sec
5- yellow color will emits for 15 sec |
6- cyan color will emits for15 sec
Then in else i make all pins = low to turn off all colors if the light is on.

simulation origami lamp.webm

Simulating

Development/Implementation Process

Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?

My circuit in real

Origami & cardboard

LDR sensor

When lights off

I connect the LDR sensor vcc to 5v pin in Arduino and GND to GND pin and Do pin to pin 8 and the RGB led the same i do in tinkercad. After i made my circuit i use cardboard to put all my components in it and i made a origami lamp with A4 paper sheet to make it more beautiful and be able to use it in decoration.

How to make Origami lamp

20220221_202459_1[1].mp4

MY Origami RGB lamp

Community of Learning

Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?

I asked Mohamed Adel about how IR sensor work because it didn't make its function right and he suggested me to use the photo resistor sensor and i didn't know what it is but after he told me i realized that this sensor will be more better for my idea , also he helped me to know how i find and use it in tinkercad.

Overcoming Challenges

When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this assignment?

After i make the circuit and code i realized that if i turn lights on all colors will emits and will not stop until the loop finish. Then i think that if i use if condition before every color it will see if the light off it will continue emit color lights and if the light turned on it will stop emit color lights.

part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Final Project

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

From this week i was thinking about adding lights and photo resistor sensor to make my project more beautiful.

WOW!

What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?

I enjoyed the end of week session exercise as we made a smart waving hand and i loved the ultrasonic sensor.

Waving hand vedio

Weekly Digest [OPTIONAL]

Tell us about any other cool things that you've made this week: in the Hands-on activity, tutorial examples, exercises, or any other cool mini-project that you tried out aside from the assignment.

Waving hand using servo motor and potentiometer.

Waving hand on real

simulation on tinker cad

Assignment Design Files

Arduino.ino

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