Assignment 1

This midterm project was something that i had trouble with. Figuring out the coding and how to control certain aspects of the game was difficult for me.

The object of the game was to avoid the falling rocks or LED’s that would fall from the top of the screen. The user has their own LED that they would control with the two buttons that i placed on the microbit itself.

Unfortunately, i cannot find the code that i wrote that was inputted in the microbit on my desktop. I definitely worked at home on this too and in class. The code that is inputted into the microbit now just controls the users input with the two buttons moving the LED left and right.

The goal was to implement falling LED’s that the user has to dodge with the two buttons. I was having trouble creating sprites that would change X value by -1 to make the LED’s appear to fall down the screen as their was more than one sprite.

i chose to write a simple pong game in p5 where you would have to use the paddle to keep the ball suspended in the air for as long as possible. Each correct deflection of the ball without the ball touching the ground will score a point. The user will control the paddle at the bottom of the screen with the left and right arrow keys on their keyboard.

I had some troubles with this project and i would also like to add more to this project. For instance i would like to add a highscore counter where the user can submit their score when the game was over.

I am not sure how to code a piece where if the ball fell to the bottom of the canvas and the user was not able to deflect the ball with the paddle, then the game would say “game over” and the user had to press a key to start the game again.

I would like to explore this game more and add more levels possible where two or more balls are dropped and the user can use a “power up” where they are given a bigger paddle to use or they can choose another power up which gives the player two or more paddles to use. The possibilities and increase in difficulty seem endless. However it was a simple but direct project.

https://editor.p5js.org/Aphill18/sketches/5IpZR8yWo

This project was somewhat hard for me. I had trouble trying to control when the ball would actually change color as it collided with the edges of the screen. However, i used if ballY is just below the edge of the canvas then it would change the color and vice versa. i couldn’t figure out how to control it well.

Here is the code.

https://editor.p5js.org/Aphill18/sketches/q4JQ35Agw

Learning some p5 is very cool and i am interested in it. The amount of things that i can picture in my head already with all of the shapes and manipulation of colors and lines is very interesting to me. I can see someone or myself creating some very unique pieces of art. I am looking forward to learning more about p5 and how one can use this code to create more in depth abstract pieces of art.

I had some trouble at the start figuring out what code does what and controlling the colors in the form of RGB. However, i’m sure as we dive deeper into the code that we can easily control its capabilities.

https://editor.p5js.org/Aphill18/sketches/6S8vI6q45

https://gyazo.com/32def59debb76c4d27e80d835825ed0e

Homework 5 was a bit challenging for me. I had some troubles with the wiring concepts and how to exactly wire each different piece correctly to the board. I even forget how to include LED’s that are even so basic sometimes. However, i used both analog sensors that were given in my project. I’m not sure if it was a part of my code that was wrong or something else, but i essentially tried to play a tune when the analog read was higher than a certain value and a different tune would play if it was below that value. I think it was something wrong in my code because i believe everything was wired correctly on the board.

https://makecode.microbit.org/_b07EzVRm39wd

homework 4 was a bit challenging for me. I missed class on Thursday which was the class that this was taught in. However, i re read the class notes and watched some youtube videos online and had a good idea of how to do the project. I had some difficulty with the coding process and the overall process with the execution on the microbit itself. The code would work on the microbit coding website but when i went to drag the file into the microbit to upload it, the microbit would keep restarting over and over and i couldn’t execute it on the microbit itself.

https://makecode.microbit.org/_AELFJAVf2bjT

This assignment was very fun and i had an easy time putting together the circuit and how to control it. We learned in class how to used the microbit and the board to create circuits that are controlled by the user with the help of the buttons. Creating the circuit was easy once the professor explained to us how to do it with the help of resistors and diagrams. This code enabled the user to press the buttons on the microbit to control the LED’s that were put in place. Once the A button was pressed it would turn the LED on or off depending on if the LED was already on or off and so would the B button. This project was fun to create and i would like to delve deeper into the use of the buttons on the board and i would like to find out its limitations with the help of the microbit.

https://makecode.microbit.org/_bH7PjqJkPY6Y

I found that coding with the help of the editing blocks on the website made everything a lot easier. The ease of use and QOL is very simple and easy to follow. I first started by displaying the static word “Hi” and then included a scrolling word of “hello” when the A button is pressed. I would like to explore deeper in the language of coding to fully understand the capabilities of it with the use of the microbit. I had fun with this project and i certainly would like to know more to develop deeper and more complicated projects.

https://makecode.microbit.org/_iv6LkRgaTY09

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