Robotics and Electronics Unit
This is one of the many projects that we were able, to do during about a month of time, to choose to work n our project in any order we feel. This project taught me a lot and interested me greatly as well. It was very fun and challenging.
Physics Concepts - Electric Circuits
Ohm's Law: Voltage = Current x Resistance
Circuit: a complete loop of conductive material with a power source
Resistors: poor conductors that reduce voltage
Voltage: power that electricity gives off, push/pull of electricity, pressure or Potential Energy difference
Series circuits: Parallel circuits: Adding Resistance:
Series - add all individual resistance
Parallel - add up reciprocals and then take the reciprocal of that number.
Resistor's Code:
First band: 1st digit
Second band: 2nd digit
Third band: number of zero's in the amount of resistance
Fourth band: tolerance
0 Black
1 Brown
2 Red
3 Orange
4 Yellow
5 Green
6 Blue
7 Violet
8 Gray
9 White
0.1 (+/- 5%) Gold
0.01 (+/- 10%) Silver
For example, using the Resistor's Code above:
a resistor's band with color order [ green + blue + brown + silver ] = [ 56 0 Ohms ] plus or minus 10% of resistance
This is a video of Raspberry Pi Robot that I got to work:
Physics Concepts - Electric Circuits
Ohm's Law: Voltage = Current x Resistance
Circuit: a complete loop of conductive material with a power source
Resistors: poor conductors that reduce voltage
Voltage: power that electricity gives off, push/pull of electricity, pressure or Potential Energy difference
Series circuits: Parallel circuits: Adding Resistance:
Series - add all individual resistance
Parallel - add up reciprocals and then take the reciprocal of that number.
Resistor's Code:
First band: 1st digit
Second band: 2nd digit
Third band: number of zero's in the amount of resistance
Fourth band: tolerance
0 Black
1 Brown
2 Red
3 Orange
4 Yellow
5 Green
6 Blue
7 Violet
8 Gray
9 White
0.1 (+/- 5%) Gold
0.01 (+/- 10%) Silver
For example, using the Resistor's Code above:
a resistor's band with color order [ green + blue + brown + silver ] = [ 56 0 Ohms ] plus or minus 10% of resistance
This is a video of Raspberry Pi Robot that I got to work:
Reflection:
During this project we effectively used our time, were very effecient and worked very hard. We used out time to effectively download software to our robot and code it in one period. We were also very efficient with our work and has to very from the kit's instructions to save space and screws and came out with a better result. We also worked a lot to get this robot working. It took multiple days but we finally did it and the result is awesome.
Some poor aspects of this project were wasting time and staying on task. We wasted a lot of time not knowing what to do because we were already done with all of our project. We also had a problem with group members staying on task. Most of them could not take part in the coding because it was a quick one-man-job. These were not major setbacks but they could be improved.
This project overall went pretty well and I look forward to doing another one like it in the future.
During this project we effectively used our time, were very effecient and worked very hard. We used out time to effectively download software to our robot and code it in one period. We were also very efficient with our work and has to very from the kit's instructions to save space and screws and came out with a better result. We also worked a lot to get this robot working. It took multiple days but we finally did it and the result is awesome.
Some poor aspects of this project were wasting time and staying on task. We wasted a lot of time not knowing what to do because we were already done with all of our project. We also had a problem with group members staying on task. Most of them could not take part in the coding because it was a quick one-man-job. These were not major setbacks but they could be improved.
This project overall went pretty well and I look forward to doing another one like it in the future.