Wednesday, February 3

Daily Blog:

Attempt in making all LEDs light

Setting up materials

Programming Error Message

Arduino Programming 

Today was a Day 2 of our E-Textile Project. Here is a quick overview of what we are doing. In this project, our mission is to create a product(E-Textile) that will solve a real life problem, using LED's, Arduino and a Gemma. In todays class, we continued on making a LED light up, using Arduino. Although this may seem like a fairly simple task, in reality, it is a process of hard research, perfect programming and troubleshooting any minor error that could have been the cause to the LED not lighting up. To make you understand how hard it was, one group figured out how to light the LED. Unfortunately, none of the groups seemed to find success. There are varieties of possible mistakes that could of happened. Here are some example issues: skipping a step, wrong wire setup, faulty programming, hardware problem, etc. This task was much harder than expected, and although the majority weren't able to accomplish the task in this class period, we learned key aspects in designing, programming and persevering, even when the task may seem impossible at the time. Here some photos from todays class.

Class hard at work

Student taking photos for his Blog

Successful attempt at making all LEDs light