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: STEAM
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…
Animated Eye on a 1.28″TFT GC9A01 Display
Halloween is a fun time of the month, which could be made even MORE fun by filling it with exciting and spooky projects. As an addition to my costume, (on which I have not yet decided) I decided to make a project that I’ve seen floating around for a little while – an animated eye…
DC Motor Driver Module
The goal of CarBot’s next upgrade is to make it able to move backwards without having to turn around. Before we do that, however, its really important to learn how a motor driver works and explore how it can be incorporated into CarBot. Here is a study of the DC motor driver board. Materials breadboard…
Updatable Clipboard – Python Project
The goal of this project was to create a program that uses the shelf module in order for the user to be able to save copied text under a keyword, and then retrieve it by typing the keyword in the program – which then pastes the text in to the clipboard. As an an addition…
Breadboard Practice
Being able to use a breadboard is key when learning electronics. This was a simple practice to light up an LED. Some of the components that were used in this exercise are: Battery LED Resistor Button Wires Using the basics of working with a breadboard (such as where the current flows, which sections are interconnected,…
Regular Expression for Contact Information
This is yet another project using regular expressions that will help us find all phone numbers and emails on a page which is posted in the clipboard; the search result will be put in to the clipboard as a string. To start, we need to import the libraries that we need – in this case…
Regular Expressions – Date Detector
This python program used regular expressions to determine whether a given date is correct or not. Leap years and days in a month are calculated as well. First, we can import re, and any other library that might be useful. In order to check whether a date is correct, we need to know how many…
Arduino Blink
As one types in their first line of code with: print(“Hello World!”), when starting to work with Arduino the first program will be blink, which involves one of its many components – LED.
CarBot Arduino
Working with Arduino can come very handy when programming robots. In this part of the project I applied some of my knowledge in Arduino programming to the CarBot project, making it able to move around using Arduino code. As it can be seen above, the program makes the robot go forward for 1000 milliseconds (or…
CarBot Relay
This project was intended to understand the function of a relay on a breadboard, and working with an Arduino UNO controller to complete simple tasks. I started by creating a circuit on a breadboard that would use relays that will control CarBot’s motors. Connecting the circuit to the Arduino board will allow us to control…
MESA Project 2020-2021
This year dates the time when the MESA project held the Scratch-it up competition during MESA day for the second time. Although due to the circumstances which we all know as COVID – 19 prevented the competition from being held in CSU-LA ‘ s campus, the rules were adapted to the current situation. General Rules…
LEGO Spik3r
I recently built one of LEGO Mindstorms models – Spik3r the scorpion. It was a fun activity. Here are some pictures of the process and final product!
Beetle Bot
This project was a follow up of another bot made a couple of months ago that used the same mechanics. The old version had many flaws, such as an irreplaceable battery, which was why it had a short lifespan. (just like a bug) The BeetleBot would improve upon those things, also a adding a nice…
Voltage and Current Basics
In order to understand how current and voltage works, you have to start with the basics. To do this I used an electronics kit and a guide, which helped me learn more about measuring current and voltage, and how different elements affect them.