Week 32 - lglik/Portfolio GitHub Wiki

04/22/19 - 04/26/19

Day One:

I continued to work on the Schlieren Effect project today. I worked on getting information from the temperature sensors using the analogRead function. I then had to adjust the value the Arduino receives to convert it to degrees Celcius. I found how to do these conversions on the Adafruit website and then adapted them for the hardware in this project. The sensor for the cold plate returned values that after conversion was about air temperature. The values returned from the sensor on the hot plate, on the other hand, did not make sense. They ranged from -15 to -5 which really did not make any sense. I had the same code for both of the sensors so it seemed reasonable to conclude that something was probably wrong with the temperature sensor on the hot plate. The other issue was that while there was some tape holding the sensors to the plate, the sensors were still exposed to the air on three sides causing them to mostly just sense the temperature of the air. I wrote the code so that with working sensors and correct mountings for the sensors, the project would work.

Day Two:

Getting the sensors mounted correctly and working for the Schlieren Effect was pretty low priority and not likely to get done soon so I made the code ready for working sensors and moved on. I committed by code for the project and then went to see what other projects I could help with.I was assigned to help with the Rube Goldberg Gumball Vending project. The first step with this project since it was still in its early stages was to assemble and install the electronics. I checked that the list of electronics made sense for the the project. I wanted to get started on installing the electronics, but the thing they needed to be mounted to had not been designed or manufactured yet. Since it did not seem likely that the plate for mounting the electronics would be ready today, I spent some time commenting code for both the Magnetic Trees and Schlieren Effect Project. On a somewhat unrelated note, I discovered that the Magnetic Trees project can run indefinitely if it is on the starts scene which it will be most of the time because of the timeout code I wrote so that is very good.

Day Three:

Absent.

Day Four:

Absent.

Day Five:

Absent.