With the end of quarter 2 and midyear exams came the start of the second semester and quarter 3. Help Desk is a semester-long course, so it has now started again as "Tech Integration IV" It has been a while since the start of quarter 3 (we're almost at the end of it) so this post is mostly a recap of what we have done throughout the quarter. The first thing we did in class is use the Circuit Playground Express. The Circuit Playground Express is a small little circuit board that has LEDs and loads of sensors. To program it, we used Microsoft MakeCode for Adafruit. It is an online program editor that uses both block coding and JavaScript. The big project we did with this was creating a piano. We drew a set of piano keys on a sheet of paper and put metal strips on the keys. We then connected those keys to the pin inputs on the sides of the Circuit Playground Express. We finally used MakeCode to make the Circuit Playground play a note every time an input was triggered. We also enabled a LED every time a key was pressed.
Next, we used a program called Sweet Home 3D. Sweet Home 3D is a free CAD software that is used to design houses and buildings. Buildings can be furnished with models that could easily be downloaded from their website.
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