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Friday, July 25, 2025

July 25th- Projects are coming together...




Team MF-G:


Tested hologram effect using the Pepper's Ghost Illusion:


Image used for Pepper's Ghost illusion:




Neopixel code adjusted to change colors and brightness with the music volume:








Magnetic levitation apparatus- due to malfunctions with hand-soldered kit, an assembled unit was purchased and tested:



Soldering a new levitation apparatus:


Suggestion for using slip ring(centered) and drive motor(on side) to rotate levitation apparatus:







Hindenboat Balloonnautics create Russell:




 

Project Table team got their monitor working at long last, when the new power supply arrived:

 

 











The Chairmen team gets their full-size table base working:



 Musical Serenade:




The Lazy Team:

                The servomotors stopped working reliably.

                 The 4 'AA' batteries were replaced, as their voltage had declined significantly. It was suggested to use a 6V DC wall adapter to insure adequate current.

                  The button presses were also unreliable. New buttons were soldered

  It was suggested:

(1) Servo sequences should be put into functions, to make the code more modular;
(2) "On Pin Pressed" block can be unreliable-

Start an event handler (part of the program that will run when something happens, like when a button is pressed). This handler works when you touch pin 01, or 2 together with GND, and release it within 1 second. When you are using this function in a web browser, click the pins on the screen instead of the ones on the micro:bit.

(2) The "On Pin pressed" should be replaced with:
              --Add virtual pull-up resistors to the needed pins
              --The push buttons should ground the pins, which can be read with a 'digital pin read' as a button push




Not sure exactly how garment recognition is being handled; suggested using sample code from 


1) Train Model using Teachable Machine; export model
2) Paste model into https://makeairobots.com/
3) Modify Example Code to trigger device








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1 comment:

  1. Wow!!! The projects are looking amazing!! Thanks, Jonathan, for the detailed day-by-day report.

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