Week 7 - Journal

Ideation

Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What were you inspired by?

There is no specific inspiration, I just thought of a device that controls some sort of giant knife that cuts things horizontally by a potentiometer and for safety purpose, it wont work in the dark and when it does work there will be an RGB LED which will light with code color according to a range of angles of the servo motor.

Tool Chain

Which software/machines/materials did you use this week? Why?

Fritzing

I used it to design the circuit and schematic

IDE

I used it to code the Arduino

I used these Physical components:

1 Servo motor

3 resistors 220 ohm

1 RGB LED

1 Potentiometer

1 LDR sensor

Jumpers

1 Arduino Uno

1 Breadboard

Design Process

Explain the design process of your assignment. How did you use the tool/software to design and/or simulate your assignment?

I used Fritzing to draw the circuit and the schematic, to make sure everything is fine.

and then I searched for the code and it is a combination of different projects.

The simulation

The schematic

The code part 1

the code part 2

Fabrication/Implementation Process

Explain the fabrication/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?

I used the physical components I have mentioned before and connected them by following the circuit schematic as shown in the video.

Here is the final result. :))))))))))))

Overcoming Challenges

When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this project?

at first, I wanted to use this instead of the module, so I searched about the connection and testing and I found this

https://maker.pro/arduino/tutorial/how-to-use-an-ldr-sensor-with-arduino

but when I was trying to test it, it keeps gives me 0 as the intensity of light, I guess it is something that's regarding the 10 k ohm resistor that I don't have.

Assignment Design Files

Arduino code [ino]

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