Month: February 2025

3-3-25

Firefly Aerospace Becomes First Commercial Company to Successfully Land on the Moon

2nd period:

No new assignments due today.

Grades are updated on Canvas. Please email me (rmilstead@tamdistrict.org) if you have any questions OR:
-see any grades that you feel are incorrect
-were absent when an assignment was due. Include the days you were absent, the reason and the assignment name(s).

3rd period:

We continue with Arduino!  First, we build your project boxes.  Each of you will keep your Arduino projects in your box.

DO NOT take items from someone else’s box. 

  1. grab a box and we will fold them together.
  2. do NOT randomly write on your box.
  3. write your name on two pieces of tape and place the tape in the following places:
    top of box, top left corner
    front of box, lower left corner

Great.  Now you can grab the supplies that you need to build your Multiple LED blinking circuit in real life.

2-27-25

Tech news: Alef Flying Car – video here, company website here

Today we will build your first actual, real life, Arduino circuit.

It will be based on the multiple, blinking LED circuit that you built and programmed in Tinkercad. 

BEFORE we begin:

  1. Use components as instructed.  
  2. Do not attempt to damage or damage any provided materials. 
  3. Clean up after yourself and pick up any loose components – even if you they aren’t from your build. 
  4. Return all components to the bins at the end of class.

We won’t leave until the room is clean and all components are return to the bins on my desk. Even if the bell has rung.

2-26-25

Protoclone is developing robots with muscle and skeletons. Their latest humanoid robot is getting alot of social media attention. 

It’s choice time today:

  1. Want to work with Photoshop Generative AI?
    Follow this link for today’s Photoshop AI tutorial.
    Follow this link to download sample images. (there are four)
  2. Want to work with Fusion and 3d modeling?
    Click here for Intro to Form Sculpting in Fusion

Choose one option and turn it in your results on Canvas.

2-25-25

It’s another once in a lifetime date.

Protoclone is developing robots with muscle and skeletons. Their latest humanoid robot is getting alot of social media attention. 

today: we continue working together on our Intro to Arduino. 
1. parts of an Arduino.
2. make a copy of the circuit that we made in our last class.
3. name the copy YourLastNameBlinking like MilsteadBlinking.
4. we will add in the following items:
-a breadboard
-an LED on the breadboard
-a resistor
-color coded wiring

One your own: Arduino Blinking LEDs