At first I was looking for normal tilt swithes but then I looked up tilt switches on wikipedia and found out there is mercury in the original tilt switches. The (mercury\tilt) switch has a small drop of liquid mercury inside. Mercury is conductive since ...
Wensday and Tuesday we made a fabric switch that that can let current through with aluminum foil by pressing in the middle of it, it happens because the switch is layered with fabric and aluminum.
We use a thing called a piezo that makes noise by programming the sound, the faster it is the higher the sound and when it was slow it was ticking. I put the piezo in a little pouch that I had made myself and attached it to the arduino then I programmed...
Today we took a small toy apart and circuit bended by attaching a potentiometer to turn the noise and LED on and off. I was able to identify all the parts of the circuit. There was a switch, a red LED, a speaker, a wire, two batteries, and a circuit b...
Today I took a cellphone apart and found some interesting parts: the front cover, the battery, a circuit board, the buttons, the screen, a speaker, and the micro-vibrator. I really enjoyed it and I hope to put these parts to good use on my junkbot.
Today I disected a computer. There are so many parts, they were all so interesting. Like in my cellphone post I am very excited to build a junkbot with these awesome parts.
Today me and my group of Noah and Justin tried to build and program a robot with an arduino that could light up and roll around but were not able to complete it due to the amount of time and some set backs so Justin has kindly decided to take it home and ...
Today I learned how to make a basic digital piece of artwork. It is pretty tough but i’m going to get better at it I just need some practice with proggraming language. To make this I used graph paper to draw it and get the coordinates of each poin...
I made my rabbit Butterscotch because she’s a great pet. I drew her on graph paper with a bunch of little dots the on the computer I put the coordinates of all the dots clockwise to make the shape and the eye is an ellipse. My rabbit is huge in re...
Today I made some pacmen go into warp speed like on Star Trek. I used arrays to list all the pacmen’s x coordinates and they looked like they were going at warp speed because they were going slow enough that they overlaped on each other and I madeÂ...
Today I learned how to use libraries filled with examples for me to use on other programs. I downloaded a library that has a bunch of physics and interactive programs, and I switched the; (size, color, height, width…). Today is the last day of cc...
Hey, during the weekend me and my cousin Ryan finished my Junkbot that I was trying to make in the DIY robotics class. It turned out pretty good. It is basically a brush bot but it’s a better design; it has two orange wires as antennas (answer me if...
We built a junkbot on the 20th of July. A junk bot is made out of just a bunch of parts but doesn’t have to move, it is pretty much just modern robot art. I made a little robot frog, it is hopefully going to be able to vibrate when I attach a mic...
