Holy Crap! Success!!

I cant believe I did it!                 I will try to put up video of it sometime soon :)
my program is working in the elephant!  It may not be the most eloquent and a real programmer would think it is messy, but it works!
and the working code is....
drum roll please...


int rcheek = 9;
int rear = 5;
int lcheek = 10;
int lear = 11;
int aluminumFoil = A5;
int brightness = 0; //how bright the led is
int fadeAmount = 5; //how many points to fade the led by
int sensorValue;  //variable stores readings from the sensor

void setup() {
    pinMode(rear, OUTPUT);
pinMode(rcheek, OUTPUT);
pinMode(lcheek, OUTPUT);
pinMode(lear, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(aluminumFoil, INPUT); //sets aluminum foil pin to INPUT
  digitalWrite(aluminumFoil, HIGH); //initializes the sensor
  Serial.begin(9600); //initializes the communication
}

void loop() {
  sensorValue = analogRead(aluminumFoil);
  Serial.println(sensorValue);
  delay(100); //delay for 1/10 of a second

 if (sensorValue < 990 && sensorValue > 895) // if touching sensor
 {
  analogWrite(rcheek, brightness);  
analogWrite (lcheek, brightness);

  // change the brightness for next time through the loop:
  brightness = brightness + fadeAmount;

  // reverse the direction of the fading at the ends of the fade:
  if (brightness == 0 || brightness == 255) {
    fadeAmount = -fadeAmount ;

 }
 }
  else if (sensorValue <= 895 && sensorValue > 750)
  {  digitalWrite (rcheek, LOW);
  digitalWrite (lcheek, LOW);
  digitalWrite (rear, HIGH);
  digitalWrite (lear, HIGH);
  delay (200);
 
  digitalWrite(rear, LOW); //turn the LED off
    digitalWrite(lear, LOW); //turn the LED off
    delay (200);
}
  else if (sensorValue <= 750)
  {{
     analogWrite(rcheek, brightness);  
analogWrite (lcheek, brightness);
 // change the brightness for next time through the loop:
  brightness = brightness + fadeAmount;

  // reverse the direction of the fading at the ends of the fade:
  if (brightness == 0 || brightness == 255) {
    fadeAmount = -fadeAmount ;

 };
 {digitalWrite (rear, HIGH);
  digitalWrite (lear, HIGH);
  delay (200);
 
  digitalWrite(rear, LOW); //turn the LED off
    digitalWrite(lear, LOW); //turn the LED off
    delay (200);
 }}}
 else
 {
   digitalWrite (rear, LOW);
   digitalWrite (lear, LOW);
   digitalWrite (rcheek, LOW);
   digitalWrite (lcheek, LOW);
  }
  }

Welcome to my most recent headache...

why yes.... that is written code...
why no....i do not understand it....
why yes... i do have to keep writing it. I need help!

Recent Art..

So these first two pictures are of my sculpture. I don't absolutely love it, but I worked hard on it.

This thing weighs a ton thanks to all my hair :-p

This is my elephant in progress. I have all of the lights working, but I haven't done all the programming .. I'm still learning how to do that.

This explains so much!!!

So a friend of mine was editing a picture that she is using as a reference for an art project on the internet and when she went to save it this what came up...

[it says... The hamster-in-a-treadmill inside your computer insists you add three letters to the end of every file name to indicate the format. Uppity rodent.]

Good News!... and Bad News...

the good news is I got a job here in Cash Valley and Cain Dairy! The bad news is that it requires me to wake up at 3am... I guess I will just have to see how that goes.

USU vs BYU Basketball Game

So in 11-11-11 (last Friday) USU played BYU in basketball and so a big group of us went to it. It was a lot of fun and we totally won. It was a really good game.

People had been camping out for this game starting the Tuesday night before, but we just went and waited in line all day. I actually went to my classes (except the one that was during the game) but some of the people I went with missed some classes so that they could go and sit in line starting at like 7:00 that morning. It was great to spend time with a bunch of friends.

I just wanted to take a minuet to let my family know how much this gospel means to me. I love my Heavenly Father and my Savior so much and I know that they are always there for you! They never forget you. Heavenly Father wants to help you with all your goals and needs, but you need to ask him and be patient because it will be in him own time. The Holy Ghost is the greatest comforter there is. I love this gospel with all my heart and I know that it is true!

Mondays...

Scott....

Hey Heidi.... who does this remind you of? ;)

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Walk

So one Tuesday night I went on a double date to the pumpkin walk. It was where people had taken pumpkins and made different scenes with them. They had the Despicable me stuff and whinny the pooh. They had Calvin and Hobs, and tons of other scenes. Sorry the pictures aren't that great.

Airplane Ride

So today Aaron Fox Showed up and took me on an Airplane ride. He is gonna come to Logan and do flight school next semester so he was here to check out the program and see if it is really what he wants to do. He even got to fly the plane for a while. These first picture are ones that I tool from the plane. They aren't the best quality because I took them with my phone because I didn't know I would be needing my camera today. He just called and asked me if I wanted to go when I was on the way to my institute class and picked me up.... I don't usually have my camera with me when I go to class. It was so much fun and I hope you like the pictures!

This is the plane we went up in... pretty sweet huh?! There are just 4 seats in it and we had the headphones on just like they do in the movies... random comment, but I had never really thought about it.

These are the pilots..... Arron is on the left and the instructor is on the right.

Needed Smile

I know I will do my part!!! ;)

Needed Smile

Hehehehe

Needed Smile

Needed Smile!

Fun at USU

It has been pretty fun so far this fall, I have done some fun things!

This is a group of us at a haunted forest. I don't know all of the people in this photo because some of them I met that night, but I will try to get the names right. Right to Left: Andrew, Kyrsten, Ryan, ME, Kim, Kevin, Tara, Mike, Betsy, and Jake...

This is at one of the football games... me and Betsy are painting Jake's face in this picture...

This is also at that same game... Kyrsten, Tara, Kim, and ME. Our team is not that bad, but we have this nasty habit of taking the good lead we have and then blowing it in the last two min....

Heck yes!!!

pAiNt DaNcE!!!!

(Eric, Tara, Spencer, Betsy, Garin, Me, Cameron, and Brianna)

So on Monday night there was a paint dance! It was so much fun! They at this watered down florescent paint that glowed in black light and then they had people who were spraying it every where using those water squirt-er-things.... the ones we attacked Grumpy with that one time, but much bigger. Then they also had gallon cans of just the paint you would use to paint your house being passed around the mosh pit. I had so much paint on me because Mike attacked me with it...(he isn't in this picture cuz he stayed longer then us)

This picture was just taken randomly after the other one... apparently we were being gangster... but that didn't work so well...

This is me and Tara's butts... she was so proud of how much paint she had on her butt... I had quite a bit on the back of my shirt, but more on the front of my pants and feet...

These are my feet.... if you couldn't tell... they were supper blue cuz I didn't wear shoes to the dance and then we found blue paint and were stepping in and then putting foot prints all over people! :) They were pretty dirty but that was also from walking home from the dance...

It was so much fun!!!! Here is an idea for the next family reunion! ;) haha

Good Times!

This is a group of us at Stake FHE! We had just had an entertaining game of where's Tara... similar to where's Waldo, but requires more energy.

This is Brianna, me, and Betsy at FHE, we just had Tara's camera and decided to take random pictures with it.

This is a big group of us at peach days, we were waiting for the parade to start! I was watching the dog :) I miss Trixy so much!!!

So we found the coolest park ever!!! well there is one like it in Manti, but the coolest one here! We were standing on this giant circle that was slanted and as we would walk around the edges it would spin! It was so much fun despite the fact that it hurts when you fall of it. Totally worth it!!!