Week 1
September 19, 2007
Week’s 1-2 Summary
So, as I am a little bit late in creating this blog, I will just copy and paste the notes I took for the journal over the past two weeks:
Week 1:
I was very excited to get started with the lab, even though I have absolutely zero experience with physical computing, and as it turned out, the lab took me quite a while.
The first two parts of the lab actually turned out to be the most challenging for me. It seemed as though everything was infinately more complicated in 3d then on the page. This was largely due to the fact that I had resovled to attempt to learn from skematics only, seeing as how I wouldn’t always have pictures to copy from.
While this proved to be very helpful on the last three excersises, the first two required a lot of trial and error. Even after I got some parts to work, I had to go back and try to understand why.
The most difficult parts for me was understanding how to read the ‘flow’ of the circuit on the breadboard, picking the right resistors, and confusing which elements needed grounding. However, by the end of the second excersise, I had begun to feel pretty comfortable with the elements involved. I also learned how exciting and amusing it can be to make an LED light up.
