1/15/13

The majority of today was dedicated to the assembly of the square bot. After the long arduous task of assembling, and sometimes disassembling and reassembling, the bot was finally completed and i was able to use the remote controller to drive it around the classroom.

1/10/13

Today we started of with switches and were introduced to the numerous types that exist, such as SPST, SPDT, DPDT, and so on. The first project was to arrange two SPDT switches in a way where either switch can turn on or off the light, or LED in this case.

 The segment of the handout went into the usage of relays and how they worked. Using a push button to control the relay's internal inductor, we were able to switch on a light, or LED in this case, with the added push button.

1/9/13

The first project of the night was to arrange a set of LED's with different levels of resistance to demonstrate the relationship between the brightness of the LED and the amount of resistance it is in series with.

The next project was to further demonstrate the relationship between brightness and resistance by using a potentiometer to adjust the LED's brightness.

1/23/13

The first project of the night was a demonstration of my toy's motors using the micro-controller. The first demonstration was to have to motor turn on for a specified amount of time, turn off for another time period, and to repeat that cycle.

 

The next demonstration of the micro-controlled driven toy motor was simply the motor moving in one direction for an amount of time, and then moving in the reverse direction for the same amount of time.