This artifact is the final mini-project in the Maker Project Proposal I completed in EDTECH 538. It extends the simple circuit projects from earlier in the instructional unit by adding an Arduino program to control the circuit with software, a snippet of which is displayed below. Extending the Maker Project Proposal beyond Scratch was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed learning more about microcontrollers. Being given the latitude to explore this topic made the entire course more applicable to my current professional practice.
I have been invited to talk more about this project and others during an Hour of Code Week this fall in the Treasure Valley and am looking forward to it immensely.
if (switchstate == LOW) {
digitalWrite(3, HIGH); // turn the green LED on pin 3 on
digitalWrite(4, LOW); // turn the red LED on pin 4 off
digitalWrite(5, LOW); // turn the red LED on pin 5 off
}
else {
digitalWrite(3, LOW); // turn the green LED on pin 3 off
digitalWrite(4, LOW); // turn the red LED on pin 4 off
digitalWrite(5, HIGH); // turn the red LED on pin 5 on
// wait for a quarter second before changing the light
delay(250);
digitalWrite(4, HIGH); // turn the red LED on pin 4 on
digitalWrite(5, LOW); // turn the red LED on pin 5 off
// wait for a quarter second before changing the light
delay(250);
}
