Week 7 - Journal

I don't know why this is the case but I found out that during debugging your eyes are totally blind to your own mistakes and an outsider eye is much better at picking out those mistakes, sharing code and asking what's the problem or why it doesn't work as intended is greatly helpful and it had helped my thoughout this project.

Well during this week I found out 2 very useful tricks to help beginners write code especially when dealing with complex components.

1. Tinkercad code blocks are an amazing tool to get read code for hard to write functions, I used it to convert the reading of the ultrasonic sensor to cm, which made contuing with the rest of the code much easier.

2. The arduino examples are a treasure of clearly explained code, I used it to understand how the code for the servo motor is written.

3. Other than those 2 my third advice is to start slow and test every piece of code on its own, it's a tideous process which takes tons of time but it saves you much headache in troubleshooting.

Coding coding coding, this week was full of it, this week gave my much needed practice on different techniques and I got kinda more familiar with arduino C and more reading for the final project.

Well I think the coolest I learned this week is how the serial monitor works and the concept of the baud, and why do people usually write 9600 in this feild, baud is the number of pulses per second and is used to transmit data serially between devices using only 3 cables, one for sending, one for recieving and one for grounding, faster pulses per second are usually better but beaware that some devices may not support it, some devices can be slow to handle it, and very fasts rates of transmissions can cause interferences.