9/25/2017: Hurricane Irma and Arduino tutorial

9/25/2017: Hurricane Irma and Arduino tutorial

Zongxi Huang

Last week, due to Hurricane Irma, we only had one period of Innovation Studio. As a result, we were not able to gain much progress in our main project. Instead, during last Thursday's class, we had a short tutorial on how the Arduino works and how it can be used. For instance, we learnt how to make a LED lamp flash by uploading a specific Arduino code onto Arduino and by connecting the LED light to the right emplacement. Moreover, we also learnt how to connect servos to the Arduino and how to operate them using either a potentiometer or an Arduino code. Finally, we also played around with the settings of the Arduino code in order to find out how different parameters would affect the behaviour of the LED light and of the servos. In the next class period, we plan to resume the construction of our prototype.