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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)
Celebrate and count your score!
One of the features of my final project is the "high five" count your score button. The student or teacher (aka user) presses the button once done with a challenge. The 7 Segment increments the score and the buzzer greets them with a joyful sound.
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?
Tinkercad simulation to test the wiring and code
Arduino IDE to test the real components
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?
Schematic generated by Tinkercad
When the Arduino receives a signal from the button, it modifies the variable (i) and plays the music note on the buzzer.
I wired the circuit on Tinkercad and checked the schematic to make sure it makes sense.
Once the (i) gets a new value, it changes the number displayed on the 7-segment.
Full circiuit wiring diagram
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?
Suffering with tangled wires for a while
Trying to mount the components without having to rewire everything
Final test video.mp4And finally, the "don't touch until I film the FINAL PRODUCT" moment
Testing the counter with buzzer.mp4Testing the system component by component
Overcoming Challenges
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?
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?
The intended behavior was that the buzzer and segment should work in parallel once the button is pressed. There was a long delay.
I asked our instructors and they said that is because I used the delay function in the code. They suggested using millis() instead. Mego mentioned in the project reviews as well that we can use Metro library. For now, I reduced the delay value and will search more about Metro for the final project :)
WOW!
WOW!
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
Discovering things by accident has a special taste. Just create an extra node and overlap the two nodes, Tinkercad will read it as a sharp edge.
Create sharp edges on Tinkercad, by accident!
Assignment Design Files
Assignment Design Files
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