Robotics and Engineering
This unit was all about how electricity works and how to apply it to robotic type work. This unit was cool because it was mostly self taught with guidance from our teacher. We worked in pairs of two for very direct partner work to get through the unit. My partner and I first learned about basic circuits put together with alligator clips. Then we learned a little bit about how to set up breadboard circuits. Last, we put together our knowledge of electricity and breadboards and learned to set up and code circuits on an Arduino RedBoard starter kit. The arduino has its own programming language that is very user friendly. For our presentation of something we coded on an arduino, my partner and I displayed a gif from a you-tube video on an liquid crystal display screen.
Our Working Display:
This unit was all about how electricity works and how to apply it to robotic type work. This unit was cool because it was mostly self taught with guidance from our teacher. We worked in pairs of two for very direct partner work to get through the unit. My partner and I first learned about basic circuits put together with alligator clips. Then we learned a little bit about how to set up breadboard circuits. Last, we put together our knowledge of electricity and breadboards and learned to set up and code circuits on an Arduino RedBoard starter kit. The arduino has its own programming language that is very user friendly. For our presentation of something we coded on an arduino, my partner and I displayed a gif from a you-tube video on an liquid crystal display screen.
Our Working Display:
Concepts: Circuit- complete loop of conductive material from one end of a power source to the other Current- measured by ammeter in amps, "flow" of electricity Voltage- measured by a voltmeter in volts, "push" of electricity Series Circuit- current has to go through multiple resisters in a row Parallel Circuit- current has many paths it can take Ohm's Law- this law states the current and resistance equals the voltage, V=IR Kirchhoff's Law- current law- the sum of the currents going into a connection must equal the sum of the currents leaving the connection voltage law- the sum of the voltages around a circuit must be equal to zero Power- brightness of a bulb (watts) Reflection: This project was super fun. My partner and I worked great together and knocked out lots of work. There are not many thing in this project where I wish I could change. There were a ton of great parts of this project. One of them included how much I learned. It was fun to figure things out on my own and communicate them with other people. Another great part was our motivation to keep on going. In the beginning, it was hard to crank through a lot in one day without feeling lazy. However, towards the end, my partner and I overcame this and produced our best work. If I had to pick something that went wrong during this project, it would have to be that we would get distracted easily by other peoples cool creations. This is one area that could be improved. Despite one thing that we could have done better, we had a lot more good things to cancel it out. |