WEEK 6

LEARNINGS

-during this week I freshened up my knowledge about electronics, Kaj introduced us to all the expressions and important factors when making a circuit

COLLABORATIVE LEARNINGS

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MAKER SKILLS AND ATTITUDE

-I learned about how to make an electric circuit and importantly that you always have to measure the voltage of LED lights and resistor to see whether they are compatible, otherwise the LED light could burn

-for the very first practice assignment I was paired up with Audrey and I have to say she really helped us make the circuits since she knew ahead a bit about it

-for further collaboration I was working with Elisa and we learned from each other very fast and efficiently, we have looked at the assignment together and tried to understand it first, which helped us both with further experimentations, instantly we divided the work evenly, so she was working on one of the sensors and I was working on an actuator

-I have seen that Elisa was working really fast on posting documentation on the website, while I first wanted to write things down for myself, take pictures and afterwards make it all visible on the website, that is why I also changed my approach, learned to be less precise when it comes to the website and I started to post straight away

-I really liked it that even though we each had our own sensor/actuator we looked at each other’s work and we have seen whether we understand it or not, so we could adjust the explanation fast

-from the beginning I had some problems with the code of actuator so I was very grateful that Kaj and Shirley looked at it and helped me figure out what is the mistake in the code, we figured that three rows of lights were turned on because it said that the board’s size was defined as (5, 8, PIN instead of (8, 8, PIN

-with making the basic practices on the paper with coper tape, I actually started to understand how the circuits work in practice, instead of only making calculations as I was used of before

-I learned that there is a specific way to connect the sensors/actuators to the Arduino and that is very important to not overlap any of the components otherwise the voltage gets to high and the short circuit happens

-found out where to find the codes for sensors and actuators and that is not necessary to write it all down yourself

-I realised that by experimenting with code and changing values you learn about how the code actually works and why are there certain amounts and numbers in it, what do they mean etc.

-I gained knowledge about connection between coding and making a component like sensor or actuator work

-Kaj as well helped with understanding of the assignment and defining how many adjustments of the code we should have made