After a few months of learning some of the fundamentals of the Arduino micro-controller, and also learning some basic circuitry, the students began work on their first programming project:
Make a program that senses the moisture, senses the incident light, and then turns on a green LED if the moisture level is ok, and the turns on a red LED if the moisture level is too dry, AND if the incident light is low - we want to turn on the drip system in low light.
Many teams were able to write the program and finish the task quickly! Yahoo!
The next step is for the students to learn how to send a wireless transmission as opposed to turning LED's on/off. Should be fun!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Work begins on the Sensor Stations
After a few months of learning some of the fundamentals of the Arduino micro-controller, and also learning some basic circuitry, the students began work on their first programming project:
Make a program that senses the moisture, senses the incident light, and then turns on a green LED if the moisture level is ok, and the turns on a red LED if the moisture level is too dry, AND if the incident light is low - we want to turn on the drip system in low light.
Many teams were able to write the program and finish the task quickly! Yahoo!
The next step is for the students to learn how to send a wireless transmission as opposed to turning LED's on/off. Should be fun!
1 comments:
SO amazing! What a wonderfully collaborative real life project! I'd love to learn more about your academy but the link to the website isn't happening....
Thanks for the inspiration! Kit
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