Programming and Electric Circuits
Our last section was programming and electric circuits. We kept our groups from building musical instruments. We first did a bunch of circuits with alligator clips and long wires with the whole class. then we used breadboard to do circuits. After the first week of introducing us to circuits, Mr. Williams cut us loose to do a whole bunch of electronics experiments, or programming, or a few other things. I will only be talking about the first 2.
Electronics experiments concepts:
Ohms law: Voltage = current X resistance
Voltage: power electricity gives off
Adding resistance:
Series: add individual resistors
Parallel: add reciprocals then take reciprocal of number
Current: amount of energy flow through an object
Resistance: how much energy is resisted.
Process: We got a packet from Electricity For Dummies and we had to do all of them in about 2 weeks. We used breadboards,resistors, LED's, and capacitors. We had to do it in about 2 weeks. We did these experiments with the breadboard like above.
Programming
We also learned how to program Raspberry Pis using Python. I will put the link down below if you want to learn how to program. So we pretty much had the Chromebooks almost every day. It takes an average of 13 hours to complete. I only got 96 percent done because I was working on electronics experiments a lot.
Below is the picture of the robot I would have programmed if I finished learning how to code Python.
Reflection
This was a good final project for the school year because we were able to get up a lot and not be in our seats all the time. Let's do the bad part first to get it over with. I could have been better at getting all my stuff done and not getting distracted.Also, I should have put work first and then friends second. Good parts now. It helped that we would be able to use this later in life for me to be motivated. Also, I had a fun time with this section.
Since this is the last update of the school year, I will reflect on this year. All in all this has been my favorite year even though I was a Freshman. This is a good program for future engineers or scientists. This is also an easy class because we barely get tests and if we get test it is open notes.
Electronics experiments concepts:
Ohms law: Voltage = current X resistance
Voltage: power electricity gives off
Adding resistance:
Series: add individual resistors
Parallel: add reciprocals then take reciprocal of number
Current: amount of energy flow through an object
Resistance: how much energy is resisted.
Process: We got a packet from Electricity For Dummies and we had to do all of them in about 2 weeks. We used breadboards,resistors, LED's, and capacitors. We had to do it in about 2 weeks. We did these experiments with the breadboard like above.
Programming
We also learned how to program Raspberry Pis using Python. I will put the link down below if you want to learn how to program. So we pretty much had the Chromebooks almost every day. It takes an average of 13 hours to complete. I only got 96 percent done because I was working on electronics experiments a lot.
Below is the picture of the robot I would have programmed if I finished learning how to code Python.
Reflection
This was a good final project for the school year because we were able to get up a lot and not be in our seats all the time. Let's do the bad part first to get it over with. I could have been better at getting all my stuff done and not getting distracted.Also, I should have put work first and then friends second. Good parts now. It helped that we would be able to use this later in life for me to be motivated. Also, I had a fun time with this section.
Since this is the last update of the school year, I will reflect on this year. All in all this has been my favorite year even though I was a Freshman. This is a good program for future engineers or scientists. This is also an easy class because we barely get tests and if we get test it is open notes.