In order to get better at soldering I practiced on a kit from Amazon, which has all the parts to assemble a clock on a circuit board. The clock would run on military time. After assembling it and soldering the parts together for the first time I faced an issue. Two parts of my display…
Tag: 11th Grade
Diameter in AutoCAD
After yet another day in the Engineering Drafting Course I learned how to work with formatting circles in AutoCAD and how to draw dimensions from a different view of the object. I’m getting much more comfortable with using the program, and plan to expand even further out into it. One difficulty I did run into…
Starting With AutoCAD
As part of my classes this school year I’m also taking an engineering design class, and this is my second drawing in AutoCAD. It took a little while to get used to as a software, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. This is the top and side view of a three dimensional…
Using the Scanner Class in Java
Following my introduction to Java through the AP Computer Science A course I examined the use of the Scanner class, which takes in user input and stores the data in a variety of ways. In this simple exercise I imported the scanner class, instantiated a new element of it by the name of “kb” and…
Magic Five Coding Exercise
This is one of the first programs in the AP Computer Science A course at school. That course mainly focused on the basics of Java programming, following the Codeio exercises as means to practice. The magic five is an exercise in which a user inputs a number greater than 0, and through a series of…
Trying out Fusion 360
In order to move forward in the technological world I need to know my way around industry standard software. I was originally going to focus on some 3D modeling software, but when I saw that Fusion 360 also offered electronic schematics my decision was set. After going through the tutorial I went straight to recreating…