Fab Academy portfolio Sara Kutkova

This week we are looking info reading sensor data, for example reading distance sensor, light sensor, thermistor… I chose to work with and accelerometer/gyroscope because I find it very useful. Group Assignment The page describing the group assignment for this week (probe an input device’s analog levels and digital signals) can e found here. Arduino code This website was my starting point when working with Adafruit accelerometer and gyroscope. It contains the pinouts, library installation guide and a very helpful example code. Read more

Group Assignment The page describing the group assignment for this week (review the safety datasheets, make and compare test casts, compare printing vs machining molds) can be found here. Introduction This week we looked at molding (process of creating a hollow cavity that replicates the shape of an object or pattern) and casting (process of pouring a liquid or molten material into a mold cavity to create a solid object with the desired shape). Read more

This week we were working with a new XIAO board that has a WiFi/Bluetooth dual-mode chip, and therefore is capable of creating and receiving a radio signals. Group Assignment The page describing the group assignment for this week (send a message between two projects) can be found here. New board Lets see if this new board works with any of the previously made PCB boards, as the new XIAO had the same pin layout as the XIAO RO2040. Read more

This week the task was to create an application that would interact with the board through Wi-Fi. I used the REST API. Group assignment The page describing the group assignment for this week (compare as many tool options as possible) can be found here. The idea I would like to draw on a PC screen using the accelerometer. So the web interface would be sending request to the XIAO every 200ms, and the response would be JSON style dictionary saying if the sensor is titled (and how much) in an x & y direction. Read more