Week 7 Blog Post - My Personal Retrospective
My Personal Retrospective What was the build that you are most proud of and why? As I look back through the exciting weeks of this makerspaces course, I have learned a lot, despite feeling uncomfortable a few weeks before class started when our professor sent us a welcome-to-class email asking us to purchase the Arduino starter kit. To be honest, I contemplated dropping the course, but I am happy that I didn’t after all. Working in technology for the majority of my career in education, I knew just enough about coding to be nervous. I know that coding is a language, and colleagues at work program various software applications to suit our academic institution’s needs. If I had to pick one build that I am most proud of, it would be the first one, the blinking led. It would be the one that I am most proud of because it was the first challenge, and I had a choice to get out of my personal comfort zone and follow through with the course, thus, learning the Arduino circuit, components, and as...