Labeled Circuit Board

Final

Process

My parents had the mat rolled up under the bed for so long I had to use books to flatten it out. 

I was going to try to interlace the pressure sensor through the weaving of the mat itself. I wanted the viewer to look at the sensor but I found that the way in which it was interlacing affected the parameters of the coding too much. Katerie had mentioned to me with my prototype that foam would work better so that there was more variety in the pressure. Charlie suggested the same thing as well. I decided to keep the sensor hidden to keep some of the mystery of how the mat works. I think it works best because the viewer will not know exactly how the piece functions and would focus more on the content

i sewed patches of cloth into the back of the mat. The sewing is unseen from the front of the mat. I didn't want to stick the velcro straight onto the mat because I didn't want to damage it.  

This is how it looks from the front. The stitching is totally hidden :)

Here is a picture of the prototype on a breadboard before I soldered it. 

I plugged a speaker to the wave shield and the piece was installed. I did have a panic moment an  hour before critique because my wires fell apart and my sensor broke. These sensors are so sensitive to falling apart when soldering a wire to them :(  Fortunately I was able to solder it back together and Dreezy gave me a spare sensor she had and it was back to business!!!!!

click here to hear all the sounds on the mat

A problem I encountered with the sound files was that if the bit sample was higher than 16 it would not play. There were two other sounds on the sd card such as roosters and fire sounds that didn't play because of this reason.

EA Chapter 10

Mini Project 2

For the mini project 2, I created a box to collect your words or breath. You can blow or speak into the box and when the lights turn red it means that your words were stored successfully.

INSPIRATION

Oribotics [the future unfolds] from Matthew Gardiner on Vimeo.

One Hundred and Eight – Animated Patterns from Nils Völker on Vimeo.

BUILDING THE CIRCUIT

I attatched a wind sensor to the set up of the temperature alert sketch. I also used an LED disk (Supervision) that I found at Skycraft that works the same way an rgb LED functions. 

I soldered the wires to the LED disk and soldered pins to the wind sensor to hold it in place and then I pluged both of these into the breadboard. 

BUILDING THE INTERFACE

I wanted to hide the breadboard and arduino board and built a box that would only display the LEDs. I used velum paper so that you can see the movement as you talk into the box. 

FINAL OUTCOME

Wave Sheild

We had problems with the Sample RateHC sketch. There was an error which we believed to be some kind of typo or misplaced character but we could not problem solve it.

Exploring Arduino Chapter 8

Exploring Arduino 2-6 Nightlight

Motor Shield and Stepper Motors

Exploring Arduino Chapter 6

6-1: Simple Serial Printing Test with a Potentiometer

6-2: Tabular Printing Using Special Characters

6-3: Arduino Serial Echo Test

6.6 - 6-9

Exploring Arduino Chapter 7

Shivette's Skycraft Scavenger Hunt 10.23.15

Skycraft Scavenger Hunt 20 points   Please take a picture of each item on the scavenger hunt using your phone. You may work in pairs. You need also to take some notes getting serial numbers and label text so that you can learn more about the item and its specs when you get home. Post small sized pictures and text describing objects on blog. I need enough information to know what it is. Have fun!  

Please locate 4 different kinds of LEDs. Look up the voltage and amp specs for each. 2 points

We could not find any specs for these LEDs and therefore do not know what their voltages/amp specs are. 

Find two giant capacitors.1 point
 

Find two devices that contain solar panels and tell me what they are. 1 point 
 

Find a breadboard. .5 point
 

Find 5 devices that contain sensors and tell me what they do. 2.5 for devices what they do for total of 3 points 

Outdoor Lighting Photocontrol Head(Dusk To Dawn Sensor): It turns on when it’s dark to illuminate your plants and yard 
Heat Detector: It detects heat and sets off an alarm
Home Sentry II: Security system, Displays time
Motion Detector: detects motion and sets off an alarm
Wave 2: Security system that sets off an alarm

Find 6 different kinds of cables and give me specs of each size in gauge. Also look up what each kind 
 12, 14, 28, 12 AWG12 AWG
22 AWG

Find a remote control. .5 points


Locate an electronics kit. What does it do?  .5 points

Uses digital signals to record pulse information and it can convert it back to digital. 

Find a solderable perf board. You might want to purchase some of these. .5 points 


Find 5 different motors and describe each. Locate their serial numbers and look up what they might be used for. Please tell me if they are DC motors, servo motors, AC/DC motors or stepper motors. 3 including descriptions
6-24VDC DC hobby motor
6-24VDC DC Small flat hobby permanent magnet motor 
12VDC DC 3800 RPM hobby motor
12 VDC Gearhead motor for power seat adjustment in automobiles
6-24VDC DC hobby permanent magnet motor

Find 3 types of camera or optical devices. 1.5 points 



Find three devices that deliberately (sound production is part of their function) produce sound and tell me what they are. . 2 points including what they do

Both the sound transducer and the piezo mini audio transducer convert sounds into electrical signals. The buzzer creates a buzzing alarm sound.

Find a strobe light. .5 points 


Find five different kinds of potentiometers or variable resistors. 
What is their range of voltages? What are they used for? 3 points including what they are used for
 
Slide Pot: used for anything that needs frequent adjustment such as volume or light.
Trim Pot: initially used to calibrate equipment after manufacturing
Assorted Motorized Pot: used in a variety of industrial automation and process control application such as speed controls, flow meters, tensioning motors, etc. by allowing automatic remote control in addition to use of a manual control knob 
Slide Pot: Used for anything that needs frequent adjustment
Double and Triple Pot: Has two ways two or three control it

Find five different kinds of switches.  2.5 points


Find two kinds of speakers. 1 point


Find three different kinds of project boxes to house an electronics project. 1.5 points 

(We read this question wrong so we found some pictures on Google)


Find three different types of magnets. 1.5 points 


Find a device that counts.  .5 points 


Find an LCD panel. .5 points 


Find 6 things that are really interesting to you that you might want to use in a project. 3 points