Month: October 2016

10-25-2016

today-

Work with your partner to complete  Arduino stoplight.  A successful stoplight will:
-follow the sequence outlined in the description
-have a working physical circuit on a breadboard
-run from a program uploaded to your Arduino board

When your stoplight meets the above criteria bring it Mr. Milstead or Mr. Varvil for assessment.

Then you may begin the Electronic Halloween project.

goals by the end of the class period today:
1. complete and demonstrate your stoplight to Mr. Milstead or Mr. Varvil
2. work with your partner to finish the Electronic Halloween planning document (you will receive this after you demo your stoplight).
3. each group member should take responsibility for parts of the Electronic Halloween work.
4. each individual completes this brief form to summarize your work on the Halloween project.

10-20-16

Part 1: Today we add a button (input) and the code to control you stoplight circuit.

Adding a button to your stoplight circuit

Adding input and an if/else statement to your stoplight

Part 2: Using your knowledge of circuit building and programing, build and program a stoplight circuit that does the following:

Program sequence:

Green light – waiting for input (the button to be pressed)

The button is pressed and then the light changes to

Yellow light –  on for two seconds then off

Red light – on for three seconds then off

Returns to green light

After you have successfully wired and programmed a working stoplight circuit, bring it to Milstead or Varvil for us to review and grade.

Part 3: Electronic Halloween

 

10-13-2016

Introduction to Arduino and ciruits.io

What is an Arduino?  What can you do with an Arduino?  Projects here and here.
What is circuits.io?
What is a breadboard?
What is an LED?

  1. login to your computer
  2. point your browser to circuits.io
  3. if you have a tinkercad.com account you SHOULD be able to login with that username and password.
  4. if you don’t have an account then create one and login.  Make sure you remember your username and password.
  5. once you have created your account then watch and do this first task on your own.  Click here for the tutorial. 
  6. Important skills today:
    1. adding components
    2. wiring
    3. changing wiring colors
    4. purpose of a resistor
    5. negative and positive legs on and LED
    6. saving projects
  7. Done?  Show me and go to Part 1. 

10-5-2016

Airplane debrief

What would DaVinci have done?  What would have inspired his design for distance?  Duration?

21st Century Paper Airplanes here and here

Introduction to Arduino

Arduino and 123dcircuits introduction

What is an Arduino?  What can you do with an Arduino?
What is 123dcircuits?
What is a breadboard?
What is an LED?

  1. login to your computer
  2. point your browser to 123dcircuits.io
  3. if you have a tinkecad.com account you SHOULD be able to login with that username and password.
  4. if you don’t have an account then create one and login.  Make sure you remember your username and password.
  5. once you have created your account then watch and do this first task on your own.  Click here for the tutorial. 
  6. Important skills today:
    1. adding components
    2. wiring
    3. changing wiring colors
    4. purpose of a resistor
    5. negative and positive legs on and LED
    6. saving projects
  7. Done?  Show me and go to Part 1. 

10-3-16

today-

Project end celebration!

Marble Maze writeup on Digital Portfolio

  1. create a new section OR page on your Digital Portfolio labeled “Marble Maze”
  2. Please post at least one photo of your Marble Maze being built.
  3. Please post at least one photo of your completed Marble Maze panel.
  4. Provide a list of tools used in this project.
  5. Describe two informal lessons that you learned during the Marble Maze project.
  6. Please describe how we should modify or improve this project for the next group.

Switch groups

Complete DaVinci electronics handout