Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Sunny the Vexbot

Marisol and I worked really hard on this baby, we both took turns programing and modifying the mechanics of our bot. However, at the final competition our programing flaws caught up on us since as the video above portrays our Sunny didn't make it to the finish line. Yet, I can honestly say that we did our best since neither of us knew anything about programing and our hard work paid off  a little bit and although I wasn't fully satisfied with the outcome I had fun working with Marisol building up this little guy.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Dimming light


Push button controlled Relay

 LEDs light up when you push the button




Different resistance

 Brightest to dimmest LED


  100 ohms 2.06 bright , 1.872 dim, 10 k ohms 1.58 dimmest

Measuring Resistance, voltage and continuity

 Bright light

 Slightly shaded light

 Dark resistance

measuring resistance

Breadboard Complete

 First Breadboard circuit.

 LED ,1.0k ohm resistor , and 5V Power Supply previously created.

Building and Testing a 5V Power Supply

 The finished product after stripping the wires of the original power supply and using a soldering gun to solder the conductors to wires so I could proceed to test for polarity.