10-31-22

updates:
1. I made the Halloween project due this Thursday.

2. For those of you using the Halloween music in your project, here’s what I learned: the little Arduino can only handle the music.  As soon as I added any blinking light at all it freaked out (technical term) which is why it made a high pitched sound.

What’s the solution?  Take the Halloween music code and put it on a separate Arduino.  Let it run by itself with no other code at all.  Place the rest of your code (blinking lights and/or a servo) on a separate Arduino.

Halloween Project Page right here.

10-27-22

 

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updates:
1. I made the Halloween project due on next Thursday.

2. For those of you using the Halloween music in your project, here’s what I learned: the little Arduino can only handle the music.  As soon as I added any blinking light at all it freaked out (technical term) which is why it made a high pitched sound.

What’s the solution?  Take the Halloween music code and put it on a separate Arduino.  Let it run by itself with no other code at all.  Place the rest of your code (blinking lights and/or a servo) on a separate Arduino.

Halloween Project Page right here.

10-20-22

Great start to room cleaning and being ready in our last class.  Thank you.

today’s Halloween project work:
Focus on programming and circuit building.
When you have a REAL circuit and Arduino running you get to start building.

NEW: replacing your breadboard button with a wired button. 

The Halloween Project page has:
-links to useful stuff like sample programs and circuit diagrams
-the project description
click here for the Halloween Project page

10-17-22

Introduction of Halloween Scene

Due today:
1. write the script for your scene in Google Docs.  You will share this script with me through a Google Form. Here’s an example of your script:

  1. the button is pressed and the haunted music starts (piezo buzzer).
    2. After five seconds the music stops and the LED behind the moon cutout turns on. 
    3. Creepy music starts again for three seconds and stops. 
    4. An LED comes on in the house and flickers by using a short delay.  Then stops flickering and stays on. 
    5. The door servo activates and the door opens. 
    6. The moon LED goes off and the light in the house starts to flicker. 
  2. The door servo closes the door.
    8. The house light goes out.
    9. Creepy music plays for five seconds and then stops.
  3. End scene.

Complete this Google Form to tell me the name of your partner (if you want to work with a partner) and give me the link to your script. 

10-10-22

All of this work is moving us towards the Halloween Arduino Project.  If you have a shoebox-sized box at home, save it.  We will use it for the Halloween Project.  And all of our work now is to get ready for the Halloween project.

today I am ready to help you with all of these:
1. finish up your Input assignment from last week.  
2. start/finish the Arduino buzzer intro. This is the first step in creating sound for your Halloween Project.

Tuesday:
1. programming your Arduino to play a song with the piezo buzzer.
2. learning about wiring and programming servos.

Thursday:
1. controlling a servo with an input.
2. writing functions for an Arduino.

10-6-22

today you take a new level in your Arduino programming – adding control by using an input.  An input can be a button or a wide range of sensors.

Your first assignment is “adding an input”
Start by building and programming this in Tinkercad BEFORE you build it in real life.
Turn this in on Canvas:
1. turning in the link to your Tinkercad program with four LEDS, a button and serial monitor by following these instructions.
2. by recording a short video of your REAL LIFE circuit working.

Your second assignment is in Tinkercad only: Arduino buzzer.
Turn the buzzer assignment in on Canvas by following these instructions.