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Week 6 - Journal
Ideation
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)
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)
This week assignment is to build and Program a smart circuit using an Arduino UNO which reads a signal from an input component (Sensor, Switch, or variable resistor) to control an action component (Motor, Buzzer, LED...etc.) using Code Blocks.
Early Birds Alarm:
I get inspiration from the smart lamp that sense the light and work according to darkness but I wanted to try the buzzer instead of the lamp/led to work as an alarm when the sunrise and the light bright so it will be nice to the morning persons.
Reference _LDR with lamp_
Tool Chain
Tool Chain
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
Electronic Copmonents:
Simulating the circuit:
Simulating the circuit:
Running the code:
Running the code:
Tinkercad
Tinkercad
Arduino IDE
Design/Preparation Process
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?
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?
I started with simulating the circuit in Tinkercad to make sure of the connection.
- connect the buzzer with the breadboard and connect buzzer ground to the Arduino ground and positive to analog pin 3 so I can control the tone of the buzzer.
- connect the LDR sensor to the Arduino. ground to ground positive to 5v and the last leg to Arduino digital pin 12 .
- start simulation to make sure that buzzer are working.
- Now I have an input [LDR] and output [Buzzer] that I want to control by the code blocks on Tinkercad.
- put If condition to read the input of light from pin 12 and according to this set the analog pin 3 to range of different values to make the buzzer tone.
- Except that the buzzer/alarm is off.
For the code blocks I put if condition as fellow:
- read the LDR input from digital pin 12.
- if LDR detects the light then the digital pin value =1 so control the buzzer output on analog pin 3 with a range of different values to give me a specific tone with a second time interval between each value then set the pin to 0.
- except that (the LDR don’t detect the light so the digital pin read isn’t 1) set the output pin to 0 so the buzzer is off.
Code blocks
Code blocks
Blocks with writing
Blocks with writing
Development/Implementation Process
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?
Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?
The components
The components
Connecting jumpers to LDR with the same color coding of Tinkercad circuit
Connecting jumpers to LDR with the same color coding of Tinkercad circuit
Connecting to Arduino
Connecting to Arduino
LDR with Arduino
LDR with Arduino
LDR with buzzer and Arduino
LDR with buzzer and Arduino
20230315_223528.mp4Real Simulating video
Overcoming Challenges
Overcoming Challenges
What kinds of challenges or problems did you face while doing the assignment, tutorials, or exercises? How did you solve them? Did you ask for help from an instructor or peer? Please provide a link to the tutorial or article that you used to solve your problem (if any)
What kinds of challenges or problems did you face while doing the assignment, tutorials, or exercises? How did you solve them? Did you ask for help from an instructor or peer? Please provide a link to the tutorial or article that you used to solve your problem (if any)
The LDR sensor was sensing in a wrong way I can’t understand so I found that the potentiometer needed to be adjusted to sense the light well.
20230313_005502.mp4Assignment Design Files
Assignment Design Files
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