Hi, welcome to my blog. This is my solution fluency on our Electric House project for Science 9 Honours. Me and my partner, Ellen, decided to remake Snoopy’s iconic red house and transform it into an electric house.

 

DEFINE: The challenge for this electric house was solve to a problem that we identified in our house. The problem we chose to solve with a micro-bit was overheating due to heat waves and global warming and etc.

 

 

DREAM: From the beginning, when we addressed the problem, we knew that we wanted to do a Automatic Temperature Based fan, this fan would be able to start automatically when the temperature sensed by the sensor board is above the set temperature. Our goal was to make a fan that can control temperature without needing anyone to turn it on or off, which would ensure a comfortable environment at all times. Some problems that we ran into were how to make an automatic fan circuit using a micro-bit but we easily solved that problem by consulting several resources such as the microbit website and an instruction manual.

 

DELIVER: We had multiple problems with making the circuit for the automatic fan as many wires, fans, and batteries did not work. After persevering and trying multiple times at home, I was finally able to get our circuit to work.

 

This is what the code looked like-

 

And this is me at home trying to figure out how to properly make the circuit.

 

(video of the circuit working is available upon request)

 

For me, the wiring for the Microbit was very complicated and it took us many hours on attaching the wires carefully to our house in a way that was efficient and unlikely to easily break the circuit.

 

Here is a picture of the wiring on the house-

 

DEBRIEF:  I believe that this process was very educational and a great learning opportunity as we were able to establish a problem we wanted to solve and use Micro Bits to try in fix it in our own way. Some improvements that could be made if we choose to further improve this project might be with our time management skills so we could get our wiring on in a more presentable way. This project taught us many important skills for the future such as problem solving, perseverance and thinking critically. I think the most useful skill that I learned from this project might be working how to collaborate and effectively share ideas with other people.