Announcements

• Homework 5 is due Tuesday at 11:40am EDT.
• We'll be doing a project this week: creating a music and light show on the Circuit Playground (Tues.) that is responsive to input from a sensor (Thurs.).
  • Be creative with this assignment! You'll submit a video at the end of the week along with your code, and there will be a space to optionally share the video with the class.
• Office hours and wizard sessions:
  • Delano: Wednesdays at 3pm-5pm EDT (same zoom link as lecture), or by appointment
  • Cheever: check his schedule
  • Ruether: by appointment Wednesdays 10am-12pm, Thursdays 3pm-5pm EDT (link)
  • Wizard sessions: Sunday 1-3pm EDT, Monday 7-9pm EDT (zoom link on moodle)

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

In this lecture, you will...

• listen to a short lecture about the different sensors on the Circuit Playground
• Update your sketch from Tuesday to create a fully responsive sound and light display on the Circuit Playground

By the end of this lecture, you should be able to...

• Receive and process input data from sensors built into the Circuit Playground

In Class Work

Sensors on the Circuit Playground

The second half of our task for this week is to use sensors on the Circuit Playground to alter some of the functionality of the music and light show that we produced during Tuesday's class. We'll cover the different sensors built into the Circuit Playground and you can choose which to use and how the sensor input will be used to alter the sound/music.

The Circuit Playground has the following sensors (shown in the picture below):

• Capacitive touch pads
• Light sensor
• Temperature sensor
• Microphone (not covered today)