Robot art show

Our task

During this project my group member and I learned all about electricity and circuits. We learned how to code/program, and how to arrange circuits in whichever way we wanted to. We did all of this with the end goal of eventually creating some sort of circuit or ¨ robot ¨ which we would build and code all by ourselves. Once my group member and I had learned enough about circuits and coding we set off to construct our robot. We started off brainstorming a couple of simple tasks we wanted it to do and then branched off from there. First, I build a trumpet with 3 keys that when played would correspond to a light with the same color as the key caps. Then after building the code for that we went on to attempt to add a screen that would display ¨skibidi toilet" at all times. However once we had written the code and made sure it worked the next day our project was destroyed and although we re made it on tinker-cad and on a physical model it never worked, even after receiving help from both Mr.Williams and Mrs.Patel.

Hardware

Circut Diagram

This was the 3D model that we built showing each and every part of the ciruit

Physical product

Although we couldn't get a video of the circuit while it worked We still have a picture of it before the final screen was added

Code

My teammate and I used the code from the Arduino experiments but made minor tweaks to it, in order for it to do what we wanted our robot to do.

//set the pins for the button and buzzer

Electromagnetic Lab:

this lab was all about the electromagnetic field and learning how it works.

Oliver Pool - Electromagnet Lab

Content:

Circuit: A complete loop or connected set of conductive material from one side of a power source (+) to the other (-).
series circuit: A circuit that has one single path with other different components branching off parallel circuit: A circuit that has different branches and separate flows for the charges. This is the type of circuit that we used on our final project as did most other groups.

Current(i): the flow of charge throughout a given circuit. Amps(A).

Voltage(v): Potential energy difference from one side of a component to another side of the component. Volts(v). For our circuit we got our voltage from the computer that was plugged into the red board. q

Resistance(r): The amount of current that is slowed down or resisted through a given circuit. Ohms(Ω)

Power(p): The rate at which energy is transferred and travels through a circuit. Watts(w)

Ohms Law: This is the idea that voltage equals resistance times current(V=IR).

Coulombs Law: The Force of attraction/repulsion between 2 static charges is proportional to their charges and inverse to the square of the distance between them(F = kq1q2/r^2)

reflection

Overall I would say this project was one of my least successful ones. I think there was a lot more that I could have accomplished and it showed not only in the grade that I received but in the overall product. I think that I could have been a better collaborator and been more involved with my teammate insuring we did the best we could on the project. I also believe that during this project I could have communicated better. Especially with my teammate since there were a lot of things we just never talked about that came back to hurt us, like figuring out the code or circuit diagram.

Even though I do think this was not such a successful project there were things I did well. For example my critical thinking was very useful in this project and I think I used that a lot given that multiple things went wrong and threw us off track. I also think that I was very creative with this project and really let my creativity take charge, even if it didn't work out in the end I still tried to be innovative with our product.

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