Electricity and Robotics
For this section, our class was tasked with going through a couple of packets that explained the basics of electricity through experimentation and then we had to create a functioning "Robot Art Show" using an arduino board and a breadboard. We started off by going through two packets, the first one using alligator clip wires and using nichrome wire as the resistor which taught us the basics of how electricity flows. The second packet used a breadboard and that got really in depth with how voltage and current work as well as resistance. After that we got to the main part of this unit, the arduino board. We had a packet that showed us sixteen sample experiments and how to set them up on a breadboard and had code for each experiment already on the computer. The code was all annotated so we could follow the code and understand what each line did. After completing all of the experiments, we started on our main project. We ended up settling on war being our final project. I did not have that much prior experience with arduino programming so most of the programming was left up to my partner but I tried to help out where I could and correct him if I saw a glaring error. Because we had gone through both of the packets so much faster than anyone else, we were both asked to help out people who were struggling with the packets or their arduino project. For the most part people asked for my partner, Cole because he is better at arduino which just left me at the desk with our project, at those times I got done what I could but could not do all that much. This did slow our progress down a fair amount but we did get it done on time. In the end we had a fully functioning game of war in which you press a button and both players get dealt a card and the computer automatically allocates points. You can see the code and a video of the project working below.
Code: https://github.com/MCMan6482/STEM/blob/master/War_Game.ino
Code: https://github.com/MCMan6482/STEM/blob/master/War_Game.ino