Digital Technology

This and last term in DTE we have been researching and planning on making our Venduino powered mini vending machine. For the wood cutout, we are going to be using a Laser Cutter. But we have been struggling with transferring the Files we need to the laser cutter programs so we looked up a picture on the internet but then we had to remove the watermark. We are still yet to cut the wood and haven't even started the Venduino program. This is our Planning, Files, and logbook.

Project Title: Arduino Vending Machine

Materials List:

Brief/ Research: We are going to be making a mini tabletop vending machine that will be powered by an Arduino code. We are making this because we saw a video on how to make it and we thought it looked cool.

Development Log:   20/08 We have been researching different ideas for our arduino project.  21/08 We still kept researching. 27/08 We have decided to choose between a robotic arm and vending machine 28/08 Our group chose to work on the vending machine 3/09 We researched the video and projects involving arduino, Trys arduinoing to the 4/09 Got onto the site and added all the files and screenshots onto the Doc 10/09 Found the files and added them to the doc 11/09/20 Making and finding out measurements to for the scaling of the wood 17 /09/20 Finding out how to implement the files onto the laserworks app 18/09/20 Looking for Mr Roscoe so we can learn about the wood cutting 24/09/20 This period we have been working on putting the files on the laserworks app.  25/09/20 Final Period of Term 3 finishing work on the log book. 15/10/20 On this day we were planning how we were going to use the laser cutter.  16/10/20 On this day we tried to figure out how the laser cutter works 22/10/20 We tried to get the laser cutter to cut our files but it didn’t work properly 23/10/20 We removed the watermark from the picture of our files so we could cut the wood with the laser cutter. 29/10/20 We got the outline to cut with the laser cutter but the lines were not straight enough so we spent the lesson trying to straighten the lines but were unable to get them straight enough to cut with the laser cutter  30/10/20 Update logbook and make a blog post

Code/ Program:

Personal Reflection:

I think I did alright but I definitely could have done better. I could've done better when it comes to getting into it faster each lesson because sometimes I just sat there and wasted time.  

DTE Analysis

1. What have we done so far in DTE?

So far in DTE we have been working on coding mBots and just having a play around with them.

2.  Evidence of my Learning,

3. Critical reveiw:

My critical reveiw on playing around with the mBot's is I beleive it was a waste of time because the mBot's barely work because we weren't able to add complex moves to the coding of the mBots.

Digital Technology Reflection (TERM 1 & 2)

Term 1:

During Term 1 for Digital Tech our main focus was to create a game. We had a choice to develop it on
either Scratch or Gamefroot. I chose to use Gamefroot to develop my game. But when I was in class
working on my game I can say I wasn't the most focused and I didn't complete this assessment.

Term 2:

During Term 2 our main focus was on our app development. I was in a group with Andreas, Michael
and Andre. Our idea for an app was to make an app around 2K20 builds for MyCareer. The way our
app worked was we had the starting screen and then on from that we had a screen with all 5 positions
and once you clicked on one of them it took you to the different builds for the different positions.
Then we would have put the attributes to put for each different build but we didn't have time.
One problem we had with our group is Michael and Andreas were absent a lot of the time when we
had  this class.

My Experience:

This semester I really enjoyed my time in Digital Tech, my favorite aspect was the App development.
The reason I enjoyed it was the people I was working with and the way we worked together. I can't say
I didn't enjoy anything. One thing I would like to do next semester is 3D printing. I really enjoyed having
Mr Carter as the teachers cause hes a beast.