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Circuit: complete loop of conductive material from one side of a power source to the other. In a complete circuit you need a power source, conductor and complete loop.

Series Circuit: Multiple components one after the other on the same path of a circuit. Dependent: lights turn less bright after each other, the current stays the same.

Parallel Circuit: components on multiple paths with the current able to go through either. Independent: lights stay the same through the whole circuit, the voltage stays the same.

Voltage: potential energy difference across a component (V=ir). In series voltage splits to add up to the total, while in parallel voltage stays the same as the original voltage. Measured in volts (V).

Current: flow of charge/electricity through the circuit. In series, current stays the same through the whole thing, while in parallel it splits into different pathways. Measured in amps (A).

Resistance: amount of current that is stowed or resisted due to an obstacle or component. Measured in ohms.

Power: rate at which electrical energy is transferred. Measured in watts (J/s=w)

Ohm's Law: V=ir. Velocity = current times resistance. Use this equation when trying to solve for either velocity, current or resistance.

Reflection

Overall, I would say this project was pretty successful. During this project I think I did a good job with communication. Neither my partner nor I had any coding experience at all, and since this project was self driven, we both needed to do a good job communicating and talking while we were learning and comprehending how to do something and how things worked. Also, since we were not sure how to code, we had to ask others for help, and learned a lot with help of other groups. We needed to communicate to get help from others and then ended up actually understanding what they are saying and what to do. Once we understood, other groups started asking us for help. We once again had to communicate to share our knowledge with them. Communication was constantly being used in this project and without it, I do not think we would have been as successful, and our project wouldn't have turned out as well as it did, and we would not understand coding as well as we do now, which is a great skill to know in the future. Even not in big engineering jobs, you may need to learn how to code with computers or other programs.

Something I think we could have done better was being more creative and more risk taking. We were creative while coming up with our song and adding the light patterns, but a lot of the groups did similar things. I believe that once we started understanding what we needed to do, that we should have tried to added. Whether is was something small like adding a button or something big like making a car move to the music, we should have tried to push ourselves more to make our project more unique. We both had plenty of ideas of what to add, we just ran out of time. Next time, my goal is to work harder in the beginning of the project so we will have more time to try out all of our ideas and decide if we could or should add them. This way we will not have to worry about not being as creative and making our project even better.