The Dance dance re-volt-ution project
The Dance Dance re-volt-ution project was the first group project that was done in freshman year. It was one of the more challenging projects because the group that I was in only had three members and the rest of the groups had four members. In the project, the group is supposed to make four dance pads that were wired so that when a person stepped on one of them. The light would light up to signal that the pad was stepped on correctly. After the four dance pads were completed, there was an ultimate dance off where the teachers from other grades came in and used the dance pads that were made and danced to the routine and the song that the group members picked.
A simple circuit works by the flow of the electric current going through the battery and the bulb (or whatever you are trying to power) and make sure there are no insulators in the way. The difference between an insulator and a conductor is that an insulator does not allow the electric current pass through it while the conductor does allow the electric current to pass. The materials that my group used to make our dance pads were card board, toilet paper rolls, a battery pack, and aluminum foil.