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Love-O-Meter project. Using temperature to turn on LED's

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 The Love-O-Meter project uses the temperature sensor and some code to turn on LED's based on how hot the sensor is. The LED's were connected to the 2 - 4 pins, and were hooked up to the sensor and made HIGH or LOW based on the "baselineTemp" of the surrounding air. As you can see in the GIF above, when my finger is away from the sensor, the temperature read is low, so the lights go down, but residually as the surrounding temp needs time to cool down. But when I put the my finger by the sensor, it goes up gradually by the same effect. I can speed up the LED's turning by touching the sensor with my finger, at which would make the sensor read my finger temp rather than the air temp, super speeding up the LED light process. The code reads the temp from the pin, and uses if, else if, and else statements in the loop function to continuesly read the temperature from the sensor. This then updates the LED's, as based on the temperature it will turn their levels to eit...
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Starship Interface! Getting to know the programming side of Arduino. (Pins, time delay)

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 This project had us building a LED array that would act as our starship interface! This interface contained 2 red LED's and 1 green one, that when hooked up and programmed right, would act as a sort of "countdown timer" for the starship launch. The setup had us connecting the three LED's to the 3, 4, 5 pin slots, with the button being connected to the second pin slot. They were also connected to the positive and negative wire lines with resistors. The assignment also made me use this pre-cutout piece of cardboard that would sit atop the LED's and the turnon switch. Honestly the most difficult part of this project was bending the cardboard piece and the wires so they would all sit together without slipping off. I wish this project was better designed for this cardboard piece, as it kinda seems like an after thought in the mind of the book writers/engineers. We had to do our first bit of programming for this project, utilizing both the pre-given setup and loop func...
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Getting to know my tools! My first Arduino project, working with Resistors, Switches, and LED's

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 This was my first project working with the basic tools the Arduino provides. It was broken into three parts:  - Setting up a basic switch to turn on the LED  - Setting up a parallel circuit switch to turn on the LED  - Setting up a series circuit switch to turn on the LED BASIC SWITCH: This was the easiest of the three to complete, but came with its difficulties and realizations. I have now realized that when I put my breadboard onto the Arduino stand, I glued it on backwards, so I will have to make sure to pay extra special attention to diagrams showing what to do, because half of mine will be reversed. I also didn't realized it mattered which prong of the LED was placed into which slot, which made it so my LED didn't work, and gave some confusion. But all in all, it was super simple to complete and super fun! PARALLEL SWITCH: This was the one where I realized that the wires the base Arduino gives you are not going to be color coded to pos and neg, which gave me a ...
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First Project, setting up Arduino Software and Hardware, and making an orange light blink!

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 Did my first project for IGME 470! This was a basic introduction to the tool setup for the Arduino physical and digital components. We went through the basic parts that came with the Arduino starter kit, put it together, installed the Arduino IDE on my computer, and than ran a simple code that flashed a light.
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