Day 5: Serial Connectors and Microcontrollers

On day 5 we finished up soldering our DB9 connector for use in our next project.

We were introduced to micro controllers and the many possibilities that they bring us. One of the activities on this packet was to get our LED to light up several times using the microcontroller and then shut off after a certain number of blinks:

We also had to program our board to be able to use sensors that would allow or restrict the flow of power from one LED to another, depending on the amount of light it received.

Next we started reading on hacking toys and figuring out how we were going to handle this.