Programing and Robotics
In this unit, we explored basic circuits and programing. My group and I worked with redboards, connecting wires to the board and giving the computer codes to light up the LEDs on the board. Our assignment was also to make the LEDs blink to music, which was really cool! I was with Simon and Evelyn for the programing unit and we had a lot of fun. At first we wanted to do the super Mario theme song, but a lot of people were already doing that so we decided to do "Fur Elise". It was hard to get the notes in the right octave but we did it and it sounded great.
physics concepts
Circuit: A system of electrical conductors and components forming a closed path.
Resistance: A measurement of the difficulty encountered by a power source by forcing electrical current through an electric circuit.
Voltage: An electromotive force of potential difference measured in volts.
Current: the flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles.
Ohms Law: States that current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference across the two points.
Parallel: Lines objects or planes that are side by side and having the same distance continuously space between them.
Series: A number of object or events arranged or coming one after the other in succession.
Kirchoffs Current Law: The total current entering a junction must equal the total current leaving the junction.
Kirchoffs Voltage Law: The sum of voltages around a current must equal zero
Bread Board: construction base for prototyping of electronics, and experimenting with circuit design.
Programing: To provide a computer or other machine with coded instructions for the automatic performance of a particular task.
Resistance: A measurement of the difficulty encountered by a power source by forcing electrical current through an electric circuit.
Voltage: An electromotive force of potential difference measured in volts.
Current: the flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles.
Ohms Law: States that current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference across the two points.
Parallel: Lines objects or planes that are side by side and having the same distance continuously space between them.
Series: A number of object or events arranged or coming one after the other in succession.
Kirchoffs Current Law: The total current entering a junction must equal the total current leaving the junction.
Kirchoffs Voltage Law: The sum of voltages around a current must equal zero
Bread Board: construction base for prototyping of electronics, and experimenting with circuit design.
Programing: To provide a computer or other machine with coded instructions for the automatic performance of a particular task.
reflection
Overall my team did really well. the peaks were that we all worked well as a team, and we never fought about anything. the best peak was that the song sounded great. The pits were that we took along time to pick the song to do and we couldn't find the right octave to put the notes in until the last day. A new skill I learned was coding and setting up a bread board that was cool, I hope I can use this again some time. Some things I could improve on are being more of a leader and asking more questions.