Friday, 26 February 2016
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
The Arduino Basics Checklist
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| Trimpot |
The Arduino checklist is meant as a guide on projects that you should be able to demonstrate before we look at putting them together to make a game.
The following tasks are included:
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| Pizeospeaker |
- Blink an LED Using the Arduino
- Read a pushbutton with the Arduino
- Control an LED output with an Arduino Input
- Read a trimpot with and Arduino
- Fade an LED from off to full power with code
- Match an LED brightness output to a trimpot input
- Make a pizeospeaker play a popular song
Each task will be assessed to see that your code works correctly and that your hardware is correct.
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Friday, 19 February 2016
Thursday, 18 February 2016
Monday, 15 February 2016
The Plan For This Week
The plan for this week is as follows:
Don't worry if you haven't finished the 555 Timer Breadboard. We will have more time for that next week.
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- Tuesday - Swap modules. Coders do electronics, electronics group moves to CODE.ORG. Electronics group starts soldering.
- Wednesday - Accountability Pillar Survey(~30 minutes) continue soldering/coding. Begin breadboarding electronics.
- Thursday - Work period for all projects.
- Friday - Safety meeting. Final day for coding/electronics first section. CODE.ORG marks recorded on Monday February 22nd.
Don't worry if you haven't finished the 555 Timer Breadboard. We will have more time for that next week.
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Progress Update
Currently with the two groups we are progressing well through our first modules.
Electronics
Most groups have finished the soldering board activity. These can be handed in anytime after they are completed.
Students will have one more class (officially) to finish their bread boarding assignment(4 circuits). After today, they will need to find time after school or after they have finished their coding work
Programming
For the group who began with coding, the CODE.ORG activities are due Tuesday. Those students will be swapping to electronics on Tuesday.
We will be coming back to do some projects that bring both of these modules together in two weeks.
Electronics
Most groups have finished the soldering board activity. These can be handed in anytime after they are completed.
Students will have one more class (officially) to finish their bread boarding assignment(4 circuits). After today, they will need to find time after school or after they have finished their coding work
Programming
For the group who began with coding, the CODE.ORG activities are due Tuesday. Those students will be swapping to electronics on Tuesday.
We will be coming back to do some projects that bring both of these modules together in two weeks.
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Monday, 8 February 2016
Friday, 5 February 2016
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Signing Up for CODE.ORG
To sign into CODE.ORG do the following:Go to CODE.ORG 20 Hour Course
Create an account.
Go to "code studio"
At the bottom, add WKFSEM as your teacher code.
Monday, 1 February 2016
Welcome to Robotics
Hello and welcome to the class of 2018 as well as all of you graduating earlier than that who want to have some fun in Robotics before you graduate.
This year will be an interesting semester of learning, growing, tinkering and fabricating. We will be keeping our focus on four facets of robotics this year when we tackle Electronics, Computer Programming, Computer Aided Drawing, and Electropneumatics. All of these things will be put to the test near the end of our semester when we undertake a pair of robotics challenges that will challenge student's ability to apply what they have learned.
All of the credits and policies regarding this course can be found in the course outline in the right sidebar of this page. That sidebar will also be the place to find all of the theory presentations, assignments and course documents for this semester.
While every effort will be made to give students enough time in class to complete their assignments and projects, it is inevitable that many students will want to take things further. To this end, the lab will be opened Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday after school until 5:00PM(and Monday with permission).
During this time students are welcome to work on their projects and to work with the Intermediate/Advanced class that will be doing project work during that time period.
If you need to communicate with me at any time the easiest way is email. Contact me at MDWAY@CBE.AB.CA or MDWAY@EDUCBE.CA
Enjoy the start of the year and remember:
Don't Panic!
Way
This year will be an interesting semester of learning, growing, tinkering and fabricating. We will be keeping our focus on four facets of robotics this year when we tackle Electronics, Computer Programming, Computer Aided Drawing, and Electropneumatics. All of these things will be put to the test near the end of our semester when we undertake a pair of robotics challenges that will challenge student's ability to apply what they have learned.
All of the credits and policies regarding this course can be found in the course outline in the right sidebar of this page. That sidebar will also be the place to find all of the theory presentations, assignments and course documents for this semester.While every effort will be made to give students enough time in class to complete their assignments and projects, it is inevitable that many students will want to take things further. To this end, the lab will be opened Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday after school until 5:00PM(and Monday with permission).
During this time students are welcome to work on their projects and to work with the Intermediate/Advanced class that will be doing project work during that time period.
If you need to communicate with me at any time the easiest way is email. Contact me at MDWAY@CBE.AB.CA or MDWAY@EDUCBE.CA
Enjoy the start of the year and remember:
Don't Panic!
Way
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