Overview
For this project, we were tasked with creating an electronic light show using an Arduino Uno board. I decided stayed with the same group as before, which was me, Arno Puppo, Angus Brodeur, and Christian Pedersen. I worked with Christian to learn how to build simple circuits using alligator clips and wires. Once we got the hang of it, we started using breadboards, resistors, and potentiometers to create more complex circuits using the Arduino booklet. Some of the circuits we built included flashing lights patterns and personalized images on a LCD screen. We spent about two weeks mastering the art of circuitry before we progressed onto the next step, which was to begin building our electronic light show. Soon Angus and Arno joined Christian and I to build our light show. We decided to code a buzzer to play twinkle twinkle little star while a row of lights flashing in sync to the music. It took us another two weeks to complete this part of the project. When we completed this part of the project, we couldn't believed it worked. All this work starting with the simple circuits really payed off when we started to created our real Arduino circuit.
Concepts
Circuit: A circuit is a complete loop of electrical conductors including a power source
Parallel Circuit: The current has a "choice" between two paths. They have the same voltage, but can have different current through them.
Series Circuit: The current has to flow across two or more resistors in one path voltage is split, but current is the same through both.
Resistance: A force against the current, decreasing it.
Current: The flow of electricity in a circuit from positive to negative or negative to positive.
Voltage: The difference in potential energy across a circuit, the push or pull of electricity.
Programming: is a process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs.
Ohms law: the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference across two points
Kirchoffs law: are two qualities that deal with the current and potential difference (commonly known as voltage) in the lumped element model of electrical circuits.
Breadboard: A breadboard is a construction base for prototyping of electronics.
Reflection
This project was one of my favorite ones so far this year. It is something I have never done before and it was crazy amount of fun creating your own circuits. This project first started out with the Arduino packet that helped us make new and improved circuits. Then we moved on to making one of our own unique circuits. We had a song going while lights flashed on with the beat. Our group had a great time doing the work and we also had a lot of peaks. One of them being able to complete the packet with thorough understanding in that amount of time that we had. Another peak was how well we worked together. This project really had our attention and most of the time we weren't off task. We also had a couple pits in this project and the main one was time management. We ran out of time again when we were trying to complete our own light show. That's also been the biggest pit all year for my groups and I. That shows that you can never be to sure about how much time you have left and used that time usefully. We sometimes got off track when we were on the computers but one of us would take the lead a tell us to get off them and keep doing our work. My group and I also had problems working with the codes on the computers. We asked for help and after the little tutorial we knew how to code the different parts of the Arduino. If we had more time we could of made a much better project but overall is was a success for my group and I.
For this project, we were tasked with creating an electronic light show using an Arduino Uno board. I decided stayed with the same group as before, which was me, Arno Puppo, Angus Brodeur, and Christian Pedersen. I worked with Christian to learn how to build simple circuits using alligator clips and wires. Once we got the hang of it, we started using breadboards, resistors, and potentiometers to create more complex circuits using the Arduino booklet. Some of the circuits we built included flashing lights patterns and personalized images on a LCD screen. We spent about two weeks mastering the art of circuitry before we progressed onto the next step, which was to begin building our electronic light show. Soon Angus and Arno joined Christian and I to build our light show. We decided to code a buzzer to play twinkle twinkle little star while a row of lights flashing in sync to the music. It took us another two weeks to complete this part of the project. When we completed this part of the project, we couldn't believed it worked. All this work starting with the simple circuits really payed off when we started to created our real Arduino circuit.
Concepts
Circuit: A circuit is a complete loop of electrical conductors including a power source
Parallel Circuit: The current has a "choice" between two paths. They have the same voltage, but can have different current through them.
Series Circuit: The current has to flow across two or more resistors in one path voltage is split, but current is the same through both.
Resistance: A force against the current, decreasing it.
Current: The flow of electricity in a circuit from positive to negative or negative to positive.
Voltage: The difference in potential energy across a circuit, the push or pull of electricity.
Programming: is a process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs.
Ohms law: the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference across two points
Kirchoffs law: are two qualities that deal with the current and potential difference (commonly known as voltage) in the lumped element model of electrical circuits.
Breadboard: A breadboard is a construction base for prototyping of electronics.
Reflection
This project was one of my favorite ones so far this year. It is something I have never done before and it was crazy amount of fun creating your own circuits. This project first started out with the Arduino packet that helped us make new and improved circuits. Then we moved on to making one of our own unique circuits. We had a song going while lights flashed on with the beat. Our group had a great time doing the work and we also had a lot of peaks. One of them being able to complete the packet with thorough understanding in that amount of time that we had. Another peak was how well we worked together. This project really had our attention and most of the time we weren't off task. We also had a couple pits in this project and the main one was time management. We ran out of time again when we were trying to complete our own light show. That's also been the biggest pit all year for my groups and I. That shows that you can never be to sure about how much time you have left and used that time usefully. We sometimes got off track when we were on the computers but one of us would take the lead a tell us to get off them and keep doing our work. My group and I also had problems working with the codes on the computers. We asked for help and after the little tutorial we knew how to code the different parts of the Arduino. If we had more time we could of made a much better project but overall is was a success for my group and I.