Digital UV Protection – SCOPES-DF

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Fab-Programming.2, Fab-Electronics.2, Fab-Fabrication.2
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Summary

In this track we will be introducing the participant to the tourism in the state of Qatar. The participant will be introduced to the wearable technology and how it’s been used in various fields, in order to introduce them to the UV light trackers to build one using Adafruit circuit playground.

This track consists of 4 Days:

1.Tourism In Qatar (Blink Bracelet)

2.Wearable technology (Animation Bracelet)

3.Microcontrollers (Timer)

4.Sensors (UV PIN)

What You'll Need

This workshop needs focus and also good programming skills in addition to :

1- Login computer

2- Adafruit microcontroller

3- Analog UV light Sensor S12SD

4- 3D print case

5- Wires

6- Presentation

The Instructions

Day 1 (Tourism)

In this day we will be introducing the participant to the tourism and the tourist places that can be visited in Qatar, we will also introduce the participant to the Ultra-violet light and the wearable devices. In order to get them to know how to use Adafruit platform.

1- The first day is more about the tourism in Qatar and the UV light in general especially the weather in Qatar is too hot.

 

  • Tourism is the act of spending time away from home.

2- Some of the tourism places in Qatar.

3- Video represent most of the tourism places in Qatar.

4- Then we will talk a bit about the weather in Qatar

  • Hot humid climate with a very hot summer days’ temperature could reach more than 50 degree culices sometimes.

 

5- This track is more about showing a link between tourism and technology, in order to creatively create a way to help tourist life easier.

  • In each day we will be having a prototype to build.

Let’s break the ice with the participant and deeply dive in our topic.

  • UV light stands for Ultra violet light which we can’t see with our naked eye.

6- There is also an index to determine the strength of the light ray and how we can protect our selves from as its harmful.

  • Also, there are types of UV light.

7- Then we will present a video that explain UV light in more details.

8- Then we will discuss the harmfulness these rays may result when the human skin is exposed to these rays.

 

9- There are many ways to protect our selves from being harmed from the UV light.

 

Day 1 (What to DO)

In this day we will be creating a bracelet that able to blink and we will be using Adafruit microcontroller and code it using Make-Code platform.

1- We will start showing what we are going to do in general/

2-Then we will explain and discuss the microcontroller we are about to use.

3- We are going to create a clap bracelet that when we start clap it will emit light.

Day 2 (Wearable Technology)

In this day participant are going to be introduced to wearable technology and the fields it's been interfering in, also we will introduce the participant to coding, in addition to iterations and IF statement.

1- Wearables are all around these days and everyone may carry 2 devices at least.

  • It was complementary to have wearables but these days it’s almost necessary as it’s a part of our living style.

2- Some of the wearable applications.

3- A video will explain wearables and its uses.

 

4- Now let’s explain what we are going to do in this day.

  • In this day we will extract the data from the accelerometer of the microcontroller in order to visualize the data on the screen.
  • In order to have this done we will need to code the microcontroller using Make-Code platform.
  • This also will require us to understand how loops and conditions works.

5- Coding is the way of telling the computer what to do using programming languages.

6- Loops are the reason of creating microcontroller as our life is based on routine, so microcontroller is the solution for completing this task as many times we need.

7- If statement is the function that contains the condition and gives a result for the induced question with yes or no.

8- Then we will explain the logical operators which are the base for all the operations happens in any logic gate as it’s based on (AND Gate, OR Gate, NAND Gate, NOR Gate, XOR Gate) but the used in creating all the commercial electronics are the (NAND Gate)

9- Now we will code the microcontroller in order to take the data of the accelerometer and visualize it on the screen.

Day 3 (Microcontroller)

Participant are going to be introduced to electricity and circuits, types of energy, in order to introduce them to microcontroller GPIO and the available Input-Output pins to know how sensors can be connected to microcontroller, in order to code a timer circuit using advance coding functions.

1- Electricity is a main concrete our life stand on and almost no one can spend a day without electricity.

  • Electricity is the oxygen of all of our electronics devices.

  • Science briefly describe electricity as the flow of charges (Current).

  • Circuits are the paths for the current to flow from point to another.

  • Electricity is generated from boiling water and producing very dry steam that able to move a generator to create the electricity.

2- The following video will explain how electric circuits work.

3- Clean Energy is a way of producing electricity without building up pollution that may result in harming the environment.

4- Today we will code the Adafruit microcontroller to create a timer.

  • A microcontroller in brief is just a tiny computer able to operate tasks like a computer but in small size and limited performance.

  • All microcontrollers have input\output pins that are communicating in and out of the microcontroller.

  • Input devices are the devices that push information to the computer (Microcontroller)
  • Output devices take information from computers (Microcontroller) to the surrounding environment.

5- Lets build a timer using the Adafruit microcontroller.

Day 4 (Sensors)

Participant are going to be introduced to sensor technology to understand the uses of these component and how they operate in projects, Participant will also be introduced to UV sensor from (Adafruit) and to the Visible light, to build a circuit that can detect the UV light and measure its index.

1- It’s important to understand that we’re trying hard to mimic our body by creating devices to have the same functions as our body.

  • Sensors are input devices takes information from the surrounding and insert them to the microcontroller.
  • These sensors detect a specific physical quantity and respond to them in a change in the resistance or the inductance depends on the sensor creation. But the result is a change always in the amount of current received by the microcontroller.

  • Sensors are used in every realm in life.

2- Some of the life working examples.

3- The following video will explain how sensors works.

4- Life is pretty easy with technology these days.

5- We will discuss what we are going to build today as we are going to connect a UV sensor with the Adafruit microcontroller in order to see the amount of UV light.

6- UV Sensor is a device able to read the intensity of UV rays touching the top surface of the sensor.

7- UV light are rays we can’t see with the naked eye.

8- Some of the applications of the UV light in the industry field.

9- The following video will explain the light in general and UV especially.

10- Now we will build a prototype of a sensor able to measure the UV light touching the surface of the sensor and respond using the LED strip of the Adafruit microcontroller.

Standards

  • (Fab-Programming.2): I can create a program with more than one instruction.
  • (Fab-Electronics.2): I can follow a schematic diagram and create a circuit including a microcontroller with electronic components.
  • (Fab-Fabrication.2): I can develop workflows across four or more of the following: modeling softwares, programming environments, fabrication machines, electronic components, material choices, or assembly operations.

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