Morse Code Competition for children in educational settings

Inspiration

We care deeply for how educational our school system is and fun projects always gauge anticipation and excitement so we wanted to do something for children.

What it does

It uses two sensor buttons to activate morse code messages, originally we spent most of the time implementing on one button so that is what we submitted but our final photo was of two buttons. One for dots and one for dashes.

How we built it

Using the makekit that was provided, we learned about breadboard connections and how to use our previous knowledge with the arduino board.

Challenges we ran into

We didn't have much previous knowledge so coming in we were very star struck by the amount of materials. It made coming up with a project much harder and required a lot of foreground learning in the early hours.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made the breadboard connections which was an arduous task and the button worked somewhat which took quite a while to get the logic for. We sadly did not have a finished product though so accomplishments weren't fully happy.

What we learned

Learned much about the ability to use arduino to simulate and solve so many tasks in a variety of genres. Many concepts such as voltage useage were new to us so learning how to correctly set up the power supply was also really fun.