Programming -  Year 8

Year 8 Programming have been working with an Aurdiono Hummingbird Board, as Samir, Michael and Thulasi explain:

In our Year 8 programming class, we are learning how to program using an Arduino hummingbird board. With this board, we can program LEDs, motors, servos, to be triggered by light, distance, temperature and sound sensors. We are in the middle of a Master Box challenge where our group was given a list of materials and we had to imagine and make a vending machine.

“I enjoy our project because it’s really hands on and I really like doing it all by myself.” – Jordan S

Our original plan was to have a sensor that's sensed a "credit card", making a conveyor belt spin enough to make a dice fall into the collection area. We scrapped the idea of the conveyor belt though after 3 weeks of trying to make it stand up. Now we are looking into what could replace the conveyor belt mechanism.

Other groups have made “bingo” machines, where they have a barrel that turns when a coin is placed in the coin slot, and some that push the item, then another item gets pushed in from the side for the next customer, and some that are vertically fed.