Robot Art Show

Description:

For this project we learned how to do basic code with a breadboard through Arduino (hardware/software company). My partner and I chose to do a celebrity heads up game. We started off with the 4C code (Heads up Game) and edited from there. We started off by changing the animal names that it originally came with to popular celebrity that people could describe while playing the game. Then we worked on our lights and sound pieces of our project. When you press the button to move on to the next celebrity when you guess it right, the green light flashes. At the end of the game when you win and have guessed all of the celebrities, the green light holds while our winning beats play. The notes we chose were based off of the transition scene music of the television show, barbie life in the dream house. We looked up the frequency of different notes and listened to the beats and tried different lengths of how long they would play. We also hooked up a red light so when you run out of time and can't guess the celebrity, the red light holds while the buzzer makes the beats of "Wah, Wahh, WAHHH" ( as shown in our modified code). To hook up the lights we used the code 1A as a reference.

Evidence of Work:

Content:

We started off by learning about Circuits

Circuit: Connected from one side of a power source to the other side (+ to -). A Circuit makes a complete loop and is made of conductive materials/components.

Current(i): Current (measured in Amps) is the amount of charge moving through a circuit. You can use an Ammeter to find the current. It could be described as sort of the "flow" in a circuit.

Voltage(v): Voltage (measured in volts) is the potential energy difference across a component. It can be measured using a Voltmeter. It could be described as the "push" or "drop" in a circuit.

Resistance(r): Resistance is when the current is slowed down ("resisted") through an obstacle the circuit.

Ohm's Law: The equation v=ir. Ohm's Law says that the current through a conductor is directly proportional to the voltage from one point to the other.

Kirchhoff's Law

Current Law: The sum of the currents going into a connection must equal the sum of the currents leaving the connection.

Voltage Law: The sum of the Voltages around the circuit must be equal to zero.

Electromagnetic: My electromagnetic experiment is attached above, demonstrating my understanding.

Overall Coding experience: I really enjoyed setting up the different wires and pieces and trying the different experiments. It was very hard to try and understand/ read the code, especially because I am not familiar with coding. This project was definitely a different experience that was more challenging to understand than I anticipated but I learned along the way from. I understand how to set up basic experiments and after editing the code, I learned a bit more about editing the software and what code needs to go where.

Reflection:

For this project, I think I thrived in Critical Thinking and Conscientious Learner. I used what I had learned from our Arduino experiments and implemented that into my final code. We used trial and error to see what worked and what needed some tweaking. We used our knowledge from other experiments to help us fix our problems.

Something me and my can work on is communicator. She was absent a good amount of time and I feel like we both could have communicated on the process of our project better.