Robot Art Show
Our mission:
For this project, we had to electrically program a circuit to perform a number of things to our needs. . For example, we could incorporate lights, music, screens, etc. In order to do this, we used a program called Arduino. Here we would write a code to change different variables within our circuit.
evidence of work
We programmed our circuit to play jingle bells while lighting up a row of LED's. For our LED's, we chose to incorporate the ping-pong preset on Arduino, giving it a waterfall effect. When we first began constructing our final circuit, we knew that by combining two individual circuits there would be placement issues. Luckily, we were able to play around with the jump wires to get it to properly work. We also had communication issues within our redboard and computer. Because of this, our options were limited to additional design variables.
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Charge: The physical property of matter that is responsible for electricity.
Electrostatic force: The attraction or repulsion of two particles due their electric charge.
Coulombs: The unit of the electric charge.
Electric Circuit: The path where electrons from a voltage flow.
Voltage: The potential difference between two points in an electrical field.
Electric Current: The rate of flow in time of an electric charge.
Magnetic Field: The area around a magnet where there is an electric force.
Volts: The unit which voltage is measured in.
Amperes: A unit of electric current.
Electric Field: The area around a charged object that interacts with other charged objects.
Electric Potential: The amount of work needed to move a positive charge.
reflection
Two skills that I felt I had successfully incorporated in this project were critical thinking and communication. This project was something that I had a really hard time with since coding was so new to me. It was like learning a foreign language. Because of this, it took a lot of deep thinking as well as help from those around me to complete. My communication was something that I felt I had improved on drastically during this project. I always have been afraid to ask questions so this was the first time I had really taken many opportunities to ask questions.
Two things that I would've liked to have been better were collaboration and time management. Multiple times during this project I would find myself doing a majority of the work and I wish I could've allowed my partner to mess around with our code more. I also would've like to have finished the circuit kits faster so we could begun our project sooner.