Time to Tell the World What I Learnt

Schematic of the Traffic Light

     So far I am through almost an entire semester of Computer Applications. I had learnt a lot and had done a quite a few projects. I had been making small project for myself. Now its time to share my new knowledge with everybody.
     My most recent project so far was the traffic light. It took me some time to figure out how it works. I had to connect 3 different LEDs and control them. I had to make an actual schematic that would show how everything is connected, which wasn't easy at first but I got how to draw it.

Fritzing of the Traffic Light

     After I finished making the schematic and found the code, I wired all of it and it was working almost like I wanted. For some reason it was inverting the light turn on sequence. I had to go through the code multiple times to see the problem. Soon I finally saw that code's creator wanted me to think and test my actual knowledge of coding. I had to flip the entire code to fix the issue. It was quite irritating but it did make me learn.
     My goals for the near future are to be able to share what I learnt and pull people into this. I want to make people want to try Arduinos and maybe follow my path. For my future I still want to use all the skills I had learnt but not necessarily in the army but also in a university/college that I might want to apply.

I Need Better Targets

Soldering Iron

     By now I had been working with arduinos for more than a month. I have been learning to do various things but I didn't have a real project in mind. I had made chains of LED lights and used a stepper motor. Now come real challenges of not just a simple code but something more complicated.
     I had been working on various projects. First it was using a push button. That led me to learning something outside of coding and connecting wires. It was challenging because it required physical skills. I had learn how to solder wires to buttons, because buttons were adapted for arduino wiring.

Complete Spaceship Interface

     Later, when I finished the pushbuttons and learned how to use them, I started working on mini project. My first mini project is Spaceship Interface.
     It had trouble working with the code. At the beginning the LEDs weren't working right. They lights were flipped. I had to work with the code for some time to figure out what the problem was. I found out that I just needed to flip some parts of the code.
     My goals now changed quite a bit. My short term goals are to work on different small projects from arduino.cc. Later I might try a bigger than a small project. My goals for the future about army still stayed the same. I will need different types of hardware programming for my possible short or long career there.