Summary:
For this project, Rodrigo and I used coding to make lights and sound come from a bread board. We used a program called Arduino to make the sounds and lights go. It also taught us how to set up the bread board to make it work.
For this project, Rodrigo and I used coding to make lights and sound come from a bread board. We used a program called Arduino to make the sounds and lights go. It also taught us how to set up the bread board to make it work.
Concepts:
Unit Concepts:
Ohm's Law: Voltage= Current x Resistance
Circuit: a complete loop of conductive material with a power source
Resistors: poor conductors that reduce voltage
Voltage: power that electricity gives off, push/pull of electricity, pressure or potential energy difference
Unit Concepts:
Ohm's Law: Voltage= Current x Resistance
Circuit: a complete loop of conductive material with a power source
Resistors: poor conductors that reduce voltage
Voltage: power that electricity gives off, push/pull of electricity, pressure or potential energy difference
Here is a picture of our art show and how it was set up:
Here it is playing. The song is the Pac-man theme:
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File Size: | 1874 kb |
File Type: | mov |
Refection:
This project was difficult. Figuring out how to make the bread boards work or why they worked that why was extremely confusing. The main thing you need to know is that the light or sound that is getting energy had to have a positive or negative charge and it has to form a complete loop. The main mistake for Rodrigo and me was picking a song that played multiple notes at a time and with the supplies given, we wouldn't have been able to do that properly. We decided to do pac-man then. Thanks to Nolan, we were able to get the notes and lights to play at the same time. To do this, you need an if-statement, which says if this note plays, this light will turn on. In the end, it was extremely fun to see our light show play, and to know all that hard work wasn't for no reason.
This project was difficult. Figuring out how to make the bread boards work or why they worked that why was extremely confusing. The main thing you need to know is that the light or sound that is getting energy had to have a positive or negative charge and it has to form a complete loop. The main mistake for Rodrigo and me was picking a song that played multiple notes at a time and with the supplies given, we wouldn't have been able to do that properly. We decided to do pac-man then. Thanks to Nolan, we were able to get the notes and lights to play at the same time. To do this, you need an if-statement, which says if this note plays, this light will turn on. In the end, it was extremely fun to see our light show play, and to know all that hard work wasn't for no reason.