Friday, March 4, 2016

Arduino Introduction 2

We were issued 3 more challenges to familiarize ourselves with Arduino, let's face it you can't resist(or) it.

1. Use the photocell to change something about LED behavior based on the room brightness. 
To do this we had to use the photocell and calibrate it to each specific resistor. We made one of out LEDs go on when it was light and then turn off when it was dark and vice versa. Learning how to use print was really helpful because it enables us to check if the senor and everything in the circuit was running well.
2. Use the tiny tactile switch to turn the LED on and off
This task was pretty straightforward, we just copied what the worksheet had said.

3. Use sweep and knob to control your servo, change knob so the servo only rotates between 60 -120 degrees. We figured out how to connect the circuit via google and played with the code to get it to go between 60-120 degrees. We also put an LED on it as a placemarker for the video.


2 comments:

  1. Nice pun with the resistor!! And interesting idea of using LED as placemarker :-)

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  2. Great pictures and videos! And I agree with Jiaming! Good idea using the LED as a placemaker!

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