We attended as a guest of LegoLand Have you heard the exciting news? Lego Friends Heartlake City is now open at Legoland California Resort! Now for those of you who have a daughter like mine, you have a love/hate relationship with “the Friends”. I love them because my daughter has created so many amazing little town buildings and has worked her fine motor skills and mind, but hate them because everywhere I step I find a Friend air bow or brush the size of a fingernail. They are the cutest toys ever and it’s really not their fault that my daughter loves to leave them all over the house, that being said I don’t really hate them, I just wish they would magically pick themselves up. Last month my family and I ventured to Legoland for a fun day at the park. As we were walking towards Fun City, I literally ran into a wall concealing the future location of Lego Friends Heartlake City! I was so excited but immediately started to figure out a way to get my husband to drive down for the opening.
Luckily I have a little girl who saw the sign and exclaimed, please daddy we need to come please which sealed the deal!!! Flash forward to May 21, my daughter had been asking everyday if today was the day for nearly 4 weeks; seriously how can someone so little be so persistent? As we walked into the park my daughter screamed I see my friends. Yup my daughter is on a first name very personal basis with Mia, Olivia, Andrea, Stephanie and Emma. Her “friends” were life-sized Lego creations and very cool looking. If you have the Friends you can totally see how precise the Lego figures are to the toys. Once we snapped a picture I was guided by my daughter to the direction of Heartlake City. As soon as you walk through the entrance to the city, you become transported into the actual Lego town. As my eyes scanned the city, I saw the stage, the stables and stores that my daughter and I had built together. It was so surreal and felt like I was shrunken down to a friends size and was somehow roaming the Lego city that we built.
Immediately my daughter ran into the Heartlake City Boutique. She was so excited and was exclaiming mommy we built this together! Based on the Heartlake Mall Lego building set, Heartlake City Boutique is where you should shop for all your Lego Friends toys and products. They have so many more items that the actual Lego store so make sure to stop in and but your special girl a special item. I finally was able to get my daughter out of the store and to the Heartlake Fountain which is a large heart-shaped fountain in the center of Heartlake City. Guests can splash and play but unfortunately this mama forgot to pack some extra clothes, a major party foul for sure! To avoid my daughters glares and looks of disappointment, I pulled the “hey look over there” moving her in the direction of the Heartlake Stables. The stables are straight out of the Lego Stables toy set with carrots, horses and so much more. Inside of this shaded stable area, guests can enjoy creating their own Lego masterpieces while parents sit back and rest.
Legos are in bins, buckets and wheel barrels. There are so many Legos that even in full capacity kids will be able to create without feeling snubbed. Right next to the stables is Mia’s Riding Camp; a huge carousel features 60 horses and jeeps. Guests can experience riding on a Lego horse from the toy set or on a jeep, side note the jeep and certain horses are stationary, make sure to ask your guide if you want a stationary horse. Once off the horses we heard music from Friends Forever Stage (yet another creation my daughter and I made together). Mia, Olivia, Andrea, Stephanie and Emma perform their “Lego Friends to the Rescue” show live on stage. The show duration is about 15 minutes and right after the show a few of the Friends come out for a meet and greet. A lot of the guests were singing along to the songs. I found out later that Lego Friends have a popular cartoon series that many of the “in” kids knew about. While my daughter was dancing about I noticed a yummy smell coming from side of the stage.
Further investigation revealed that the City Park Crêperie was open and preparing their signature crepes: powdered sugar, Nutella, Nutella and bananas, and berries. Make sure to stop buy and satisfy your sweet tooth while the kids enjoy their special time at Heartlake City.#mydetroitautoshowWe'll be sharingEXCLUSIVE CONTENT, like:with James McCann STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS: subscribe to our youtube channel. THE VERY FIRST DETROIT-HELDAUTO SHOW TOOK PLACE IN 1907 ARE YOU VISITING THE AUTO SHOW?Share your photos on Instagram with: #mydetroitautoshowWe'll make sure to share them! We have detected that you are using an outdated version of Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 10 or lower) that is no longer supported.To access this website, please upgrade to the new Microsoft Edge browser or Internet Explorer version 11, or alternatively you can use the latest versions ofSince 2017, I started to make new project with Arduino and describe why I started it in previous article.
How easy to make it is and what I can make with Arduino. In addition, I had joined in Hackathon to support for people who are into developing with Arduino. I was shocked how tremendous easy it is. If I think something to make up solution, I can make up with Arduino and others. Okay, here is the result what I made during 1 and half month also, It is not the end of entire project because, this project will be interacted with other project which means, it should be integrated with the another. but I like to arrange current status and explain what it is. Even though it is a part of entire project, but it is possible to work independently. Defined command from the another project is poosible to be worked for Pet feeder. I start to describe about 'Pet Feeder'What does it means 'Pet Feeder'? yes, Feeding machine for pet. we used to go somewhere during holiday or vacation but if you live pet like dogs or cats together, how are you going to take of them? Or If you have unexpected business trip, how to deal with their feeding?
Here is the answer for these people. This solution is automatically distributed for food of pet. In case of cat, they can mange their food even though we place a bunch of food in their plate however they can't manage in case of dogs. Not sure how many kind of pet you raise but this solution is to be much helpful in order to feed your lovely pet. I will describe how it has functionalities and how to work and how to co-work with 'Pet Manager'. Originally this solution is a part of 'Pet management' solution. A part from pet manager, there is pet manager which can detect and monitor their pet and send feeding command to pet feeder. In this article, it will focus on Pet Feeder.Here is requirement what it needs.There is 3 method how to interact with Pet manager. Not sure which kind of pet manager attached, therefore Pet feeder provides several ways to receive commands.Here is specification for this project.I am sure you can understand what it is and what it has functionalities. What I felt about this project during making it, Arduino provides a lot of libraries to use peripheral devices also, many people followed up and made reference codes in their blog.
All people can make it and make up environment for this kind of solutions. In other word, dreams come true if you put your effort in it. Absolutely, this project has a limit to make high quality solutions but I don't think your solution should be high quality. If you need high quality solution, you can use raspberry pi with linux operating system. No more IoT solution untouchable. Basically, Pet feeder consists of two parts which are Arduino and EV3. Arduino is hardware platform to make IoT solution and EV3 is set of lego blocks. Arduino has a bunch of libraries but it's difficult to make shape of solution. I mean, if you make some project, it should be covered to show up. LEGO is the best item to make shape of solution. you can assemble with lego blocks for your solutions. I also made mechanical part for Pet feeder, how to feed and how to control it. EV3, It will be worked according to mindstorm program like labview and well controlled with motors and sensors. I decided to make up feeder with Lego blocks with the proper mechanical way.
I was thinking the mechanical ways to controll and choose one thing to feed. In this article, I thought SG-90 is good for this project, but I changed my mind and used Lego. Refer to the below article, I realized the way how to communication between EV3 and arduino.I2C method is simple way and Arduino provides this method to communicate. If you want to communicate with Arduino from EV3, you need to install I2C brick module in your mindstorm, you can find a way how to get it and install in this article.Here is the article how to control switch as interrupt mode. Bluetooth and Infrared signal should be detected as falling mechanism. But switch is to be covered with Gpio pin if you setup Interrupt mode. /49I stuck in difficulty when I use Infrared receiver in order to make up this solution because I used cheaper photo transistor to receive signal from IR LED but which was not worked correctly, I not sure what problem it was, I doubt it had voltage issue. Anyway I changed IR receiver which is using gpio pin and make up pull-up circuit to put correct voltage.
Arduino provides sample codes and modify in own project. According to sending command, it will be decoded and show the result what message you receive.In case of bluetooth, I used HC-06 slave model.This module is communicated via softwareSerial library which is the simple way to communication on Arduino. Once I made up circuit and tested it with the sample code. you don't have to set baud rate for BT module and have to register with your mater bluetooth device like mobile phone before connecting this bluetooth module. If you register HC-06 bt once using '1234' password. you don't have to register again before removing the device.The upper code is the sample code and I made own in order to work correctly. In addition, I developed Mobile application to send Bluetoo control. 'App Inventor 2' is much more powerful tool for making mobile application. Here is design what I like to show, there is buttons, lable, list picker, notifier and bluetooth client.Here is block design how to connect the app to arduino via bluetooth.