ROL Flashlight

The design challenge of the flashlight project was to make a flashlight case and cap using solidworks, solder everything together, learn how resistors work and the flashlight had to work.The requirements for the flashlight were Generate two candidate flashlight case designs:Provide sketches including views (side, top,end,isometric,etc.) that show relevant features.location of holes for LED and switch, battery replacement access, etc.Include all dimensions.Any digital format or design tool is OK for reporting the two design.Include all (rough) dimensions.Dimension of parts: LED round bulb part: 10.1 mm diameter; square switch 6 mm side.battery case 15 mm x 15 mm x 35 mm (leave room for wires to pass by)Some of the things that I learned about in the lecture or demonstration was how to properly solder based on the video Roach showed us and I learned how to use solidworks My personal assessment of my effort on the project is really good because I managed to solder every part together in one class period which I thought I was going to be able too. Also, I managed to learn how to use solidworks which was something I was not good at.The evidence and specific steps I took to meet these goals were to learn how to build in solidworks , being able to solder the parts together and being able to put all the parts in the flashlight.  From doing this project I learned and got better at using solidworks and building things on there. I also learned how to solder.Things I struggled with were building my case and caps because I wasn’t good with solidworks, so that was very difficult for me. I had to print one of my caps twice because the first time I printed it, it came out way to big. My flashlight was the prettiest flashlight of them all & it could properly turn on & off while you would press the button. This project was very fun and cool

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                                         ROL Traffic Light Simulator

       The design challenge of the  Traffic Signal Design Project was to be able to design a flashing LED Circuit using the “raspberry pi” and the bread board. After we completed the assignment we moved on to extend the flashing LED, create a signal single traffic light simulator, 2 signal intersection simulator, & add a synchronized walk-light to the traffic light. We had to add things to the breadboard like more wires or more LED’s. We also extended our code.
   Some of the things that I learned about  in lecture or demonstration were that if the code has bugs it wont run. The code in the computer and then to our pi and it activates the LED lights that are in the bread board. To add more LEDs you have to make sure you add more parts of the code so it will run.
    My personal assessment of my effort on the project was to try to do my best on the code or just simply putting in wirers. Resistors, or LED’s in the bread board.
​     The evidence and specific steps I took to meet these goals were learning about the “raspberry pi” and figuring out how to make codes and debug the codes. We had to hear a lecture from Mr.Roach telling us to do and what to not do. We also watched some videos.
​     From doing this project I learned and got better at debugging. Most of the time Roach would give us codes that would help us start off the project, but they always had bugs so we had to get rid of them. I also learned how to put resistors, LEDs and wires in the bread board because if you put them in the wrong place they won't work. I got better at finishing my work on time.
     Things I struggled with were with the coding in general. You just had to keep extending the code for every little thing you would add to the breadboard. If you made a small mistake on the code it would ruin everything.
My traffic light simulator was successful. Roach went around and looked at everyones bread board. When it was me and my partner's turn we were nervous, but we got a good score because we did all the requirements and we did everything correctly.
     My traffic light simulator was successful. Roach went around and looked at everyones bread board. When it was me and my partner's turn we were nervous, but we got a good score because we did all the requirements and we did everything correctly.