Project Description: For this project, we were required to build an "art show" by programming an arduino board to do something. This could have been flashing a light, playing a song, or anything of that matter. Before doing this, we had to actually learn how to do this. We started by learning the basics of electricity. After, we learned about breadboards, which easily connect different components. Finally, we learned how to actually code programs. For our project, we decided to make a sort of Jeopardy. A screen would print a question and you would have 4 buttons corresponding to answers a, b, c, and d.
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Concepts: Power - The amount of energy used per unit of time / The rate that work is done Current - The total amount of electricity through a circuit Voltage - The potential energy across a component of a circuit Resistance - The voltage drop across a component / The 'obstacles' in a circuit Circuit - a closed loop conductive material from the positive to negative side of a power source
Reflection: This project turned out pretty great, we did almost everything we wanted to. First of all, we were able to make our program work with very few problems. This code was very difficult to make but in the end it worked out well. Second, any problems that came around to us were solved. We were able to figure out a lot of new things on our own as well as help other people. Although this all is true, there were a few things I wish I did better. First of all, I wish our project worked exactly how we wanted it to. We were able to get it working very very well, but I did want to figure out a few things. The main thing was that I wanted to figure out how to make multiple things run at once, not knowing this caused problems, including not being able to press a button and have a song stop. Second of all, I wish we had more time for our project. We were able to make our project almost complete, but we didn't have enough time to add enough questions to our project. Overall, our project went averagely well, with equal positives and negatives to it.