Terrarium Night Light

objectFinalDemoVideo from Phil McKenzie on Vimeo. Introduction The goal of this project was to create a desert landscape inside an open terrarium that lights up as a room darkens. Reasons for doing this. Add plants to my plantless house. Add an automatic lamp/night light the main living area of my house. Attempt to create a…

Lab 8

Overview In this lab I built melded an arduino controller with a processing interface to create a pong game controlled by knob potentiometers. The main reason behind Materials Solderless Breadboard and hookup wire Arduino microcontroller module & USB connector Potentiometer x 2  Process the physical aspect of this lab is exceptionally simple, it is simply two…

Lab 7

Overview In this lab I built and programmed two circuits based around Arduino logic and motors. The first circuit controlled a DC motor, when the user pressed a button the motor would reverse directions. The Second circuit utilized a stepper motor, the motor was programmed to rotate 360 degrees clockwise, then 360 degrees counter clockwise.…

Project 1 – Artificial Human Companion

Introduction The goal of project one is to create an Artificial Human Companion. The first thing that came to my mind was to create something using Big Mouth Billy Bass. Billy is an anamatronic singing fish and incredibly annoying relic of the late 90's which conveniently lived in the open hacking bin of CU Boulder's BTU…

Lab 6

Overview In this lab I programmed 2 Arduino circuits. One circuit drives a servo motor and the other circuit used photo-resistors to make a theremin type device using a speaker. In part 3 I created an interesting enclosure for part 2 of the lab. Materials Part 1 Computer to power and program Arduino Solderless Breadboard…

Lab 5

Overview In this lab I programmed 2 Arduino circuits using different potentiometers. In the first circuit I used a plain potentiometer and mapping functions in Arduino to dim and LED. In the second circuit I used two photo-resistors to create a voltage divider. Materials Computer to power and program Arduino Solderless Breadboard and hookup wire…

Lab 4

Overview In this lab I programmed a simple arduino powered circuit Materials Computer to power and program Arduino Solderless Breadboard and hookup wire Arduino microcontroller module & USB connector LEDs of different colors (at least 2) 220 ohm and 10 Kilohm resistors Switch Technical Details Schematic for Arduino circuit. Process I set up the circuit…

Lab 3

Overview In this lab I soldered a simple circuit on to a proto board and came up with a concept project. Materials 9 volt battery x 1 female barrel jack adapter x 1 male 9 volt to barrel jack adapter x 1 proto board 1 inch by 1 inch x 1 soldering iron x 1…

Lab 2

Overview this lab has 3 parts part 1) In this part I built a simple non traditional switch. part 2) In part 2 I built a "paper" circuit which connects with my simple switch. part 3) In part 3 I built example Series and Parallel Circuits. you can make something similar to my parts one…

lab 1

Overview In this lab I built a simple circuit that lights up an LED when a switch is closed. Instructions for this lab can be found here. materials solderless breadboard x 1 jumper wires x 8 78xxl voltage regulator x 1 red LED x 1 button switch x 1 220 ohm resistor x 1 9…