Thursday, week 1

To start off, we talked about mechanical toggles and momentary switches. All switches were double throw switches. I first constructed a simple dual way "light switch" so no matter the state of the switches, flipping one will always change the state of the LED between on/off.

Next thing we did was learn about relays which are just electronic activated switches. I made a circuit which has an LED normally on, then when the relay is switched, it turns off and a different LED is turned on.


Finally we made a buzzer circuit so the relay switched itself off. When power was applied, the relay broke connection to the power, causing it to turn off. But when it turned off, connection was restored and this process repeated very rapidly causing a buzzing action.
The last thing we did was to finish building out vex squarebot and get it driving around. I souped mine up with extra large wheels
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