Well, this is much harder than I anticipated! After looking at maps, I finally went and got a mini map laser cut on acrylic! It was pretty cool watching how to machine worked and laser cut the piece of acrylic.
I brought it to class and everyone thought it was so cool!! After showing them the laser cut map, my professor told me that it would be cool to connect lights to it that changed color based o the temperature in Houston. Of course I thought that was a great idea!! I had a new plan to laser cut only one large map, frame it, and have a rgb light strip on the back on the frame hidden, that changes color with the temperature! The only issue I had was how to make these lights change. My teacher gave me a Hummingbird Kit which contained a circuit board, usb, lights and sensors (sound, movement, and TEMPERATURE (woo-hoo), etc. He explained how I could plug it into Scratch and create a code so that the lights would turn on and change color. I worked on created a code for a bit and finally did it! I created a code that caused the light to change colors with the surrounding temperature. But there was one problem... the color wasn't changing. It stay as blue!! I even tried to heat up the temperature sensor but nothing worked. So thats a problem I'm currently trying to fix. Also, was the Hummingbird circuit supposed to be attatched to the rgb led light strip??? How was the going to work? And would all of this have to be hooked up to the frame and the computer?? So many questions and only a week left! It was pretty cool watching how to machine worked and laser cut the piece of acrylic. I brought it to class and everyone thought it was so cool!! After showing them the laser cut map, my professor told me that it would be cool to connect lights to it that changed color based o the temperature in Houston. Of course I thought that was a great idea!! I had a new plan to laser cut only one large map, frame it, and have a rgb light strip on the back on the frame hidden, that changes color with the temperature! The only issue I had was how to make these lights change. My teacher gave me a Hummingbird Kit which contained a circuit board, usb, lights and sensors (sound, movement, and TEMPERATURE (woo-hoo), etc. He explained how I could plug it into Scratch and create a code so that the lights would turn on and change color. I worked on created a code for a bit and finally did it! I created a code that caused the light to change colors with the surrounding temperature. But there was one problem... the color wasn't changing. It stay as blue!! I even tried to heat up the temperature sensor but nothing worked. So thats a problem I'm currently trying to fix. Also, was the Hummingbird circuit supposed to be attatched to the rgb led light strip??? How was the going to work? And would all of this have to be hooked up to the frame and the computer?? So many questions and only a week left!
I brought it to class and everyone thought it was so cool!! After showing them the laser cut map, my professor told me that it would be cool to connect lights to it that changed color based o the temperature in Houston. Of course I thought that was a great idea!! I had a new plan to laser cut only one large map, frame it, and have a rgb light strip on the back on the frame hidden, that changes color with the temperature! The only issue I had was how to make these lights change. My teacher gave me a Hummingbird Kit which contained a circuit board, usb, lights and sensors (sound, movement, and TEMPERATURE (woo-hoo), etc. He explained how I could plug it into Scratch and create a code so that the lights would turn on and change color. I worked on created a code for a bit and finally did it! I created a code that caused the light to change colors with the surrounding temperature. But there was one problem... the color wasn't changing. It stay as blue!! I even tried to heat up the temperature sensor but nothing worked. So thats a problem I'm currently trying to fix. Also, was the Hummingbird circuit supposed to be attatched to the rgb led light strip??? How was the going to work? And would all of this have to be hooked up to the frame and the computer?? So many questions and only a week left!
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