At the start of recitation all of us got our Arduino kit beginner boxes. It was unexpected, but very nice. I love to work with my own equipment. Also, I was very happy that professors turned on the music in the studio. It was a pleasure to work on my circuits today. In addiction, I am working faster with music, and I am more concentrated and relaxed( no panic ). Our first circuit has to be connected with the computer with a help of arduino microprocessor. We needed to use the code to make our LED blinking. There was no troubles with the code, but my circuit didn’t want to work. At first, Professor helped me and explain that we now use the different Arduino, and I should choose the another port in the app to make it work. I also get the knowledge of where the reloading button is on the microcontroller. But actually it wasn’t able to work. I was trying to find the mistake in my circuit. I tried many different position of the elements, but no one of them worked. I was confused. My friend suggested me to use the different LED. And it worked! I suppose that when I was moving the elements I get out the resistor and my LED broke. I am sad about it, but this was a good example of what you don’t need to do. Important rule number one: disconnect the arduino when you are changing positions of the circuits’ elements.
For the second circuit, we needed to add the buzzer instead of LED. And the code contained the nusic which should be able to play with the help of buzzer. Building wasn’t hard at all. But I was struggling with the code. It says that there is the mistake in code. But I just copied it from the site professors gave us. Later, I found out that there was another code inside of the first one and we needed to setup it too. Especially, to add this code and to changes its name. It was working pretty good. The melody was fun. Important rule number two: read instructions. It was clearly said what I need to do, but I just missed them at first.
Third circuit was the easiest for me. I loved the clearness of the scheme. And it was lovely to build it with the music. I got all elements right and changed their positions only when it was no power. For this circuit we needed to use many many cables. But it is convenient to match their colors with the colors on the scheme. We needed to build a game when you need to push the button 10 times and to be faster than your mate and then the light turns on and the music of your win is playing. I got some self-confidence after this building. I finished it one of the first and it was fun to play this game with my friend. I am a little confused of how to draw diagram for it, but I will do my best.
Q1 – I am not quite sure that I understand this question right, but my proposal is first – to make the button many times bigger. like to the size when person can stand on it. Second, it is a good idea two connect to buttons of this size for making the game more interactive. So, we have two pairs of buttons and each pair works onle if all of two buttons in this pair are pressed. Pressed by two standing persons. It makes this more interactive, because people now need to jump to press the button, so they using more muscles and get more happiness hormones. Also, they interact with each other. Now it is a game for 4 players divided by two teams, all of them need to work together to win and this will be much more funny.
Q2- We are using 10k0hm resistor for this button, because we need to be sure that when the button is unpressed it isn’t reading HIGH. We need this resistor so our button would be connected only to the Ground when we are not pressing it. Resistor is important here, because the input pin would be connected to nothing sometimes if we will not use it. And when the input pin is unconnected it is reading in random values which can make our process really hard and unrelevant.
Q3 – I found the project Punch Activated Arm Flamethrowers by Allen Pan very interesting. It uses not only the Arduino platform, but also many other resourses such as pipes. This project also is not only interactive, it inspires people and creates art. person with this arm flamethrowers can create somethig beautiful, unique. you can find the infinite number of options of this project. In addition, if you see the project and still have questions how it works – then it is a good project, because there should be the mystery in your invention:). I love this Arduino project and see how interactive it is. For example, you can make the fire show and create the art and interact with other people with the help of this invention.