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Day 1 of Sensors, Probes and Detectors. I was extremely excited. My facilitator, Yashas, only tells us all that we were going to build a robot. And I was a little nervous. I had absolutely no prior know-abouts regarding Electronics, except in school though. What I had studied in school was already hazy and I couldn’t contain my excitement, on day one of this class, in anticipation of learning an entirely new subject. This was my first experience with learning how to solder. Truth be told, mine was the worst kind of soldering in the class. Although, eventually, I got the hang of it and now, I absolutely enjoy using the solder iron. We were only given instructions as to the making of a robot. Honestly, I didn't understand much about what I was doing, but I was only following the instructions. I was the last to finish making my robot, but it was not at all in vain. I took time to understand the logic behind why we did what we did. That was a fulfilling day, alright. | Day 1 of Sensors, Probes and Detectors. I was extremely excited. My facilitator, Yashas, only tells us all that we were going to build a robot. And I was a little nervous. I had absolutely no prior know-abouts regarding Electronics, except in school though. What I had studied in school was already hazy and I couldn’t contain my excitement, on day one of this class, in anticipation of learning an entirely new subject. This was my first experience with learning how to solder. Truth be told, mine was the worst kind of soldering in the class. Although, eventually, I got the hang of it and now, I absolutely enjoy using the solder iron. We were only given instructions as to the making of a robot. Honestly, I didn't understand much about what I was doing, but I was only following the instructions. I was the last to finish making my robot, but it was not at all in vain. I took time to understand the logic behind why we did what we did. That was a fulfilling day, alright. | ||
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| + | This was our first weekend and it was time for our first weekend homework. When I heard that we were to make a battery out of lemons and light up a LED, I was excited as well as tense as to how I was going to make a lemon battery in the first week itself, without any instructions or any knowledge about Electronics. I resorted to YouTube and found that all it took was a big, raw lemon, a copper wire and a nail. I only thought that it was that easy. When I actually tried it, I faced a lot of trouble acquiring enough voltage to light up the LED. When, finally, in class four of us combined our lemon batteries, we finally got very little voltage enough to let the LED glow very dim. | ||
Revision as of 20:14, 17 October 2015
My First Robot
Day 1 of Sensors, Probes and Detectors. I was extremely excited. My facilitator, Yashas, only tells us all that we were going to build a robot. And I was a little nervous. I had absolutely no prior know-abouts regarding Electronics, except in school though. What I had studied in school was already hazy and I couldn’t contain my excitement, on day one of this class, in anticipation of learning an entirely new subject. This was my first experience with learning how to solder. Truth be told, mine was the worst kind of soldering in the class. Although, eventually, I got the hang of it and now, I absolutely enjoy using the solder iron. We were only given instructions as to the making of a robot. Honestly, I didn't understand much about what I was doing, but I was only following the instructions. I was the last to finish making my robot, but it was not at all in vain. I took time to understand the logic behind why we did what we did. That was a fulfilling day, alright.
Lemon Battery
This was our first weekend and it was time for our first weekend homework. When I heard that we were to make a battery out of lemons and light up a LED, I was excited as well as tense as to how I was going to make a lemon battery in the first week itself, without any instructions or any knowledge about Electronics. I resorted to YouTube and found that all it took was a big, raw lemon, a copper wire and a nail. I only thought that it was that easy. When I actually tried it, I faced a lot of trouble acquiring enough voltage to light up the LED. When, finally, in class four of us combined our lemon batteries, we finally got very little voltage enough to let the LED glow very dim.
