Week #7

Journal

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)

Now , I gonna make a smart small storage drawer .🤩

I love having office tools, to use them to write summaries, and also drawing tools since I am in the College of Arts, but with the large number of tools on the desktop, it becomes very messy, and it is also exhausting to have a storage drawer that I open and close many, many times. I thought about making a smart storage drawer that opens and closes using a sensor instead of opening and closing it with my hands.🤷

This tutorial helped me a lot to do my task .👉

Tool Chain

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

_ Software

https://www.tinkercad.com/dashboard

It is a free app for 3d design , electronics , and coding

arduino-ide_2.3.2_Windows_64bit

Makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board offline

_ Electric components

_Making Tools

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?

Firstly , opened TinkerCAD and created new circuit .
Then brought the components needed ( Arduino UNO , ultrasonic sensor , LEDs ( red & green ) , 220 ohm resistor , servo motor , side switch , push button , breadboard ) .
After that started building my circuit as follows :

_ connect the Arduino with breadboard by wiring 5v pin of Arduino to the positive rail of the breadboard and GND to the negative rail

_ Connect the LEDs as follows : Red on pin2 on Arduino and Green on pin 3 , remembering to connect 220ohm resistor with both of them .

_ For connecting Ultrasonic sensor , VCC to the positive rail and GND to the negative . Trig on pin6 and echo on pin7 .

_ For connecting servo , red wire to the positive rail , brown to the negative and orange to pin9 on Arduino .

_ Then connected the side switch by connecting it's middle pin to pin11 on Arduino then the left pin to the negative rail and the right to the positive .

_ Push button , one side on pin12 on Arduino and the other to the negative rail .

_ Finally , connecting IR sensor , VCC to the positive rail , GND to the negative and OUT to pin11 on Arduino .

After finishing building the circuit , opining Arduino IDE and start building the code .

Starting with defining the variables

Then , coding void setup by defining the pins , which is an input or output .

Then , coding the automatic mode .

Then , coding the manual mode .

Total void loop :

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?

Firstly , I brought the components needed ( Arduino UNO , ultrasonic sensor , LEDs ( red & green ) , 220 ohm resistor , servo motor , side switch , push button , breadboard ) .

Then started building the circuit as it is in tinkercad .

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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)

After finishing building the code , I tested it to know if it works or not , but I found out that it doesn't work , as the Arduino give a light for a second then fading till losing the connection with laptop . An electrical short circuit often occurred !

To solve this problem ,

Firstly , I disconnected the wires from the Arduino to see if there were problems with it or if it was fine

Then, I reconnected the circuit once again then tested it and thanks god , it works .

Message problem

Arduino testing

Circuit retesting

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

As required in the final project to make a smart device so , it will contain smart components , these components need to be programmed as we want to work , and that we learned in this week .

WOW!

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

Using Arduino , in this week , I faced many problems and knowing how to solve them was a great achievement for me .

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.

We made a smart home . 🤩

I enjoyed building it and knowing new component like relay . 🥰

Assignment Design Files

TinkerCAD Link

Arduino Ide Link

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