Monday, February 28, 2011

Robopro 1st activity

  • when one of the variables gets changed, all with same name get changed
  • do not need to be connected

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

l (distance) = m
t (time) = s
m (mass) = kg
a (area) = m^2
v (velocity) = m/s
(density) = kg/m^3
g (gravity) = m/s^2
F (force) = kg*m/s^2
E (energy) = (kg*m^2)/s^2
P (power) = (kg*m^2)/s^3

Content is King


My field-aerospace engineering(helicopters)

Example of blog:
http://www.sae.org/mags/aem/power/news




  • talk about new innovations with their company-SAE International



Fields I see me blogging about:




  • New inventions


  • step by step on the project I'm working on


  • Pictures of my projects
Importance of branches:

  • Decision making for program
  • Can do more when can decide because it can branch off because of different scenarios

Normally open switch examples:

  • flashlight-the circuit is always open until switch is pressed which closes the circuit and the light turns on

Normally closed switch examples:

  • Anything with an emergency off button-it runs until the button is pressed which opens the circuit and turns it off

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Flowchart Problem 1

This is the first of two flowcharts for the flowcharting activity. We're using this as a class example!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Inputs and outputs

Mini Switch:
-when plugged into 1 and 3 and not pressing button:
unchecked
at zero
not present
-when in 1 and 3 and pressed
checked
at one
present
-when plugged into 1 and 2 everything is flip-flopped

Potentiometer:
-range: 38-4945

NTC Resistor:
-1668
-while warm was at 1318

Motor:
-one way to change the direction of spin is by switching the wire ports

Electromagnet:
When reed switch is touched the box becomes checked

Photo transistor:
-closer light gets the number goes down

This activity was a lot of fun and I learned how to do a lot of things I did not know before I did it.