Day 11: Can I take a break?

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Day 11 - Sunday

The previous week, I purchased a variety of things for DIY terrarium: DIY kit, sea shells, river stones, glass jars and pots, moss, potting soil, and so on. Yesterday, my collection of plants (13 in total)  finally made their way to my dinning table.

So Sunday the kids and I spent most of the day making terrarium. In the beginning, it was as bewildering and anxiety-inducing as working with electronics. However, terrariums seem to be infinitely more pleasant and reassuring and simpler than electronics.  After made a few blunders, Emma and I went into full drive and filled our empty glass jars with little plants. We decorated them with white rocks, marbles, even a glass chess piece ...

In the afternoon, went to a birthday part and did ice skating.

At night, I opened up my Arduino Uno starter kit tutorial from elegoo.com and continued my tutorial.

I learned about servo motors,


I was trying to hook up LCD display, however found my pentiometer went missing. So happily moved on.

I learned about ultrasonic sensors: