Finally Having a Few Wins and I Need to Buy Supplies

 


I'm late this week, because I completely forgot about this. My biggest success would be finally getting a little bit of a grip on the Labs. I was feeling very confused and discouraged, but at least now I have a little bit of confidence. 


Some Questions that I had from the lab were:

Don’t understand the difference between print and println


Why doesn't it work with built in led?


I don’t know why we'd divide by 4?







We discussed all of these in class. I learned that the difference between print and println is that it creates a new line, and that placing lines certain places allows the data to be displayed in the visual graph. 

It didn't work with the built in LED because the oscillating, the quickly turning on and off, can't be done in the built in LED and we need that to create a varied degrees of brightness because we need to fake it being analogue. That was not a very eloquent way to put it. 


We talked about my project in class. I need to get a load cell and something that can play an Mp3 or other sound file. I think I have a basic idea of how my project will work. The load cell will give data, I'll create a range for that data, within a certain range the sound will be cued, and it will play. Now I just have to get the equipment and write the code and put it all together. I am not confident it will be as easy to pull into reality as it is to theorize. 



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