BISTRO CAR GARAGE

So this is my attempt at the Pcomp project. I still need to get a better understanding of how it works.  So I shall write my process of arriving to these pictures. After class on wednesday the third, all the class went to buy their lab kits to the computer store.  ”sorry we ran out, the order is still to arrive”  bummer.  I had no clue into electronics and now didnt have material to even feel more lost. I went on to read some of the other book, waiting, praying that the lab kits would arrive soon. next day I woke up early and by chance I stopped by the computer store, they had the lab kits.  I was happy and sent an email on the thread to tell I had got my kit and they had plenty more. I opened the kit on the lab, and I was confused, too many tools, very pretty ones but did not make sense on how to even start.I asked for help, and tomás kindly helped. he explained and helped me put all my breadboard and arduino together. the LED´s blinked and did what they were supposed to do.  I was happy although I had an intuition that if I were asked to do it again I would not know to reassemble my blinky LED´s.I took pics before hand in case I did not get to get it working again, I took video. kind of crappy pics and video.   So I pulled everything apart, (important lesson to be learned next time: REVERSE ENGINEERING), without looking at how I was disassembling.  I went back to step 0.  I looked at the tutorial and with some more question, now I had a clearer idea of what was I doing.   I got it to working, making sure I documented everything, I had my laptob case lying around and trying tomake my pics less crappy I used the case as a a background and it also gave the breadboard a bit more light and contrast. Plus I like orange. I took video and everything. Afterwards I needed to get creative,  I love any type of discarded material that can be reused and repurposed.  I found the junk shelf, and I found paradise.   I found an apple keyboard, a mouse for my laptop ( Ileft all my accesories in Mexico, thanks to the now stricter luggage wight regulations, thanks to the high gas prices).  And I found the had a hose, very nice clean and transparent hose. Initially I wanted to play with the hose and a marble, but could not figure out how to make it work with the whole wire, foil etc.  So I left the hose for other day, andin the meantime I found my race car.It worked but still wasnt easy to transport. At the Kimmel Center, I found these discarded GOURMET lunch boxes from a convention that ocurred on the weekend.  I took one and made the basis of the Garage. hopefully one day, when I have a bit more time (and understand electronics enough to be able to tweak it) I can convert the actual GOURMET lunch box into the real, pop up gourmet race track I had in my mind.   Breadboard Set updsc00401.JPG SwitchSwitch 2  dsc00412.JPG the actual car switch the car 

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