My Robotics and Engineering journey.
This week I worked on the PCB for the word clock and built a completed breadboard with the new parts. I also uploaded the code to the new microcontroller and got it to run the word clock. The last thing I did was finally wire up the breaklight on my spoiler while the weather was…
This week I worked on the finishing touches of the word clock and I also worked on a small and short side project for one of my teachers Mr. L. To start the week I worked on rebuilding the word clock in different ways to experiment with the invisible letter effect that the clock has….
This week I worked on finishing up the word clock by building it and finishing the daylight savings code. I created a conditional statement for daylight savings that used the formula day of month – day of week to find the previous sunday which works for finding the second sunday of march but the issue…
This week I missed a few days because I was sick and I had to pick up where I left off last week. I spent the little amount of time that I did have this week working on fixing the daylight savings issues I was having. My teacher Mr. Christy created a conditional that I…
This week was shortened but I managed to make a big leap forward in the progress of the Word Clock. Since the new LED strips came in this week I knew it was time to solder so I gathered all of the PCBs and cut the new roll of LEDs into 11 strips of 12…
This week I did a few different things and was kind of jumping around. To start the week I finished up the lampshade by adding some final touches after confirming that the final print was good. I sent the file over to my teacher Mr.L and he will eventually print it out on the resin…
This week I took a small break from the word clock project because I was waiting before the long stretch of hours of soldering that I have coming up. Instead, I worked on a project that one of my teachers, Mr. L, offered to everyone in the class. Knowing that I needed a break I…
This week I continued to work on the mini PCB variations for the LED Strip connections. I also looked into changing up the way my code is written to be able to incorporate more comprehensive comments to make certain sections more understandable. The first thing I had to work on this week was changing my…
This week I finished the code for the Word Clock NeoPixel control using a Web Server, updated the design of the Web Server to make it look nicer, added comments to my code document to polish everything off, and designed and cut out PCBs for connecting the LED strips in a new way. To start,…
This week I spent the entirety of my week working on the Web Server used to control the NeoPixel. I followed a guide from Random Nerd Tutorials and it helped me learn how to use sliders. Using the knowledge of sliders and a YouTube video I found I was able to write code that controlled…
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