And what part of what I suggested canbkt be flower up by "once you have it working, replace the led, resigri and sensor with an actual burner"?I think you are missing the point, its the whole project not a programming exercise.You can do this entire project from 0 to 100% complete and never actually need to use a burner at all, therefore not subjecting yourself or others to any unnecessary danger. That is what the previous posts meant.
Your solution is similar to telling someone to draw a picture of a brick wall on their desk rather than get the experience of the problems of actually building a wall.
Flame ignition, flame detection are critical parts of the project, designing ones that work are part of the project. Detecting whether lights are on or off are not the same project.
Too many kids are not interested in real world problems, those that are should be encouraged.
At a similar age one of my extra-curricular school projects was analysis of ignition of gas mixtures, I wasn't just igniting gases, I was exploding them. That gave me hands on experience of safety and risk analysis which is possibly why the teacher suggested the project, he knew what kids with interests like ours got up to outside school.
I was. 11 once too and I also played with fire fuel among other dangerous things. But the point standes, that this can be done without hooking up gas and fire together from step 1.
No one is discouraging the kid.
Statistics: Posted by memjr — Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:37 am