Learn more about how to code in Excel in these two simple projects!

Try your hand at this project that will walk you through on how you can create a MsgBox in excel, which is a dialog box you can use to inform users by showing a custom message! Here is the link: https://www.excel-easy.com/vba/msgbox.html

Also, you can try to create a Macro. A Macro is a feature in Excel that helps you automate repetitive tasks so that next time you can do the task in just a few clicks! Here is the link: https://www.excel-easy.com/vba/create-a-macro.html

Obstacle avoiding robot

Over the summer 2018 semester, CLACEC built an Arduino powered obstacle avoiding robot.

The robot detects obstacles directly in front of its sensor and turns in the direction where there is more space to move. Here is a video of the Robot in action

Student contact: Hassan Batesta (batesta1995@gmail.com)

Arduino powered Rain gauge

Update Thursday, 07/14/2018: Our weather station is now fitted with a temperature, humidity and pressure sensor. The chart below shows the data collected over the last two weekends. 

Fred Buls is now working on connecting the weather station to the campus wifi. Once connected the internet the Arduino will transmit real time data to a webpage. The data will be made public for anyone to use. 

Update Thursday, 06/28/2018: Do you know how much rain the Clarkston campus received last weekend? Our Arduino rain gauge estimated 0.24 inches!

The data collected by the Arduino had a number of spurious data points which we attribute to poor electrical connections in the circuit (the circuitry still uses a breadboard with no soldered connections). Always important to check the data before analyses. 

Fred now plans to add a temperature, humidity and pressure sensor to the system.

Update Friday, 06/22/2018: The rain just missed us, not a single tip was recorded on the Arduino over Thursday night. Hoping for some rain over the weekend!

In preparation for a rainy Thursday night, we deployed the Arduino powered tipping bucket rain gauge. The new gauge has been set up next to an existing rain gauge between the C and G buildings on the Clarkston campus. 

Thank you, Fred, for working on this project and thanks to everyone to who came out to support the first Arduino project! 

Stayed tuned for updates on how the Arduino rain gauge performed and for rain data collected by the gauge.