BOLT Engineering Fair Design Execution

To build my prototype I took the pins that came with the different components and used a soldering iron to melt them in place using a metal called solder, which is commonly used when piecing together electronics. Once the pins were in place, I inserted the components into a breadboard, which is a tool used to build circuits without soldering the individual components together. I put a wire into the “ground” pin on the Arduino and put the other end into the breadboard, doing the same for power. I attached these wires to both the LED light board and the AS3935 lightning tracker. When I ran a sample program to test the lights, they worked! I then created, with some guidance from several online resources, a program that checks for lightning; and if there is lightning, it will proceed to run a different part of the program.