Arduino (2021)

GOAL(s): Make something that worked on the Arduino board, and code it. 3D print something that went along with what was made on Arduino. The 3D print that was made and the Arduino board layout, with the coding. I decided to make a temperature sensor with the Arduino. The 3D print would have been a moveable truck, that could move and sense temperature. There was no main physical source for this project, the Tech teacher helped a lot in certain instances, he also went to school for this kind of stuff. There were these books that showed you how to make different things with the Arduino. Looking up the code to what you were trying to do, as well as videos on how to set up the certain thing that you were trying to do. I wanted something a little difficult for me but also something due able. I wanted to make up for my going by looking up a design for the 3D print because I'm not quite comfortable with it as well as don't know how to make the thing that I wanted very well. I figured that trying more in one department could be a little bit looser in the other department.

REFLECTION: I learned how to code a tiny bit, it wasn't a whole lot but it was some. I have used the 3D printer and the Arduino boards in the past and it was not a very fun experience. I can say this time, with confidence, that it was a lot more fun and way less aggravating. Having the book with the different Arduino information in it was another blessing. That it wasn't as upsetting as I thought it was getting to be, usually tech stuff like this gets to me. I don't enjoy doing it, but this setting was completely different as well as the feeling. I learned a lot that a lot of coders themselves don't remember the code, they also do look stuff up from time to time. It was a very big thing that I took away knowing. Being able to look up how to do things. Having the Arduino books at our use. It allowed me to have a final product, If was not able to use resources outside of the school I would have failed this class. The 3D printing was something that I was not able to get to, I had a feeling for ME, personally, it was going to be one or the other, there was just no way that I was going to be able to do both. I have never really liked both of them that much so the fact that I needed to do both of them, at the same time was a little issue. I would have gotten started on the 3D print around the same time that I was close to finishing the Arduino board. The Arduino board was done but it wasn't exactly accurate, but it was still something. I could have done a 3D print a little sooner into the start than I did.

EVIDENCE:

OUTCOME: The temperature sensor on the Arduino board got made very well, unfortunately, the 3D part did not get done. I had the software installed and everything, but was not able to get it printed in time, as well as there was not any room on the available 3D printers. The books that had the Arduino cheats on them came in handy A LOT. It was able to help me figure out where all the wires went, what I was going to do for my project, and figuring out the code for the board was to work. Jim said it was okay that I did not have my 3D element. I worked quite a while on trying to figure out the board, so that helped take the pressure off on me for the 3D part. The temperature sensor reads the temperature. Was overheating, to the point where it was hot to the touch. The temperature was also up in the 400, which was not in that room. Trying to fix those issues was the biggest thing. Paris just figured that I needed a new temperature sensor instead of the one that I was using. We got a new one and it wasn't getting hot to the touch anymore. The temperature not being the right one was a coding issue, Paris and I tried for 20 minutes trying to figure it out, and we then looked into the formulas of Fahrenheit and Celsius to figure out the correct temperature in the room.