The final week ended yesterday and here is a photo of my final product, Alexagon! In the final week, I have made all the final adjustments and fixed minor details of my product. The 3D printer had made the design a little rough around the edges and therefore it needed to be filed correctly so it fitted properly with led the lid and bottom, when I put together the product.
Furthermore, I added new code into the existing code onto the node mcu for the new LED light circle, making every second light change from blue to red every other second. I used the code from here. Otherwise I kept the same code for using the DHT 11 sensor, only changing the digital pins, as I had moved to when I was wiring components together. We ended the week by showing off our products amongst other UTS students who have also participated in a summer course and built something different. The overall feedback from students was that they liked I had added LED lights and designed a Hexagon :-) My reflection on this course has ultimately been how cool it has been to built an IoT product from scratch not having prior knowledge on the topic. It's been a great learning curve dividing the weeks into sprints knowing what to focus on and being able to work autonomously and together as a team helping each other with our individual devices. Furthermore it has been exciting to learn new concepts of IT and to gain more practical experience in Python, Visual Studio Code, Fusion 360 and engineering in general of building and mechanical design. To be continued.
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