so everyone talked about that first rush of elation when you first manage to hook up the arduino board to the breadboard correctly and you see the LEDs light up, and don’t get me wrong, i felt that rush.  i also felt a rush when i held that soldering tool in my hand and started to smell the fumes coming off the metal…but i believe some would call that a different rush.

i felt like i wanted to understand the lab more in depth however because i didn’t feel confident understanding how each part was being controlled and how the commands in arduino were controlling the LEDs.   so i added another switch and another LED light to see if I could get it to light up correctly which i did.

finally i wanted to see if i could come up with my own version of a combination lock.  i at first was toying with the idea of having it somehow monitor a coin flip but i couldn’t think of a conceivable way of detecting a difference between heads and tails.  so i toyed with the idea of having a color combination lock.  the idea is that a person would have a series of secondary colors lit up, purple, orange and green in the outside ring and that in order to unlock it, you would have to hit the switches corresponding to the primary color LED (tho i couldn’t find a blue LED light) in the right combination to get the secondary colors.  currently having some difficulty programming this in arduino however but i’m going to keep trying to figure it out.