2022/09/28/Recitation 2: Arduino Basics

About the circuit:
When building the circuit, i just follow the picture of the circuit, i start from the left pert of the circuit, try to find the connection between the electric wire. The difficulties i encountered is that there are too many electric wire in the circuit, so is hard for me to find appropriate place for the electric wire.Also, when i finish built the circuit, the light didn’t turn on, it takes me time to find the wrong thing in the circuit.

Question 1: I want to add a button in the middle of the circuit, if someone press this button, the other two button will stop working. By using this button, participants can start at the same time, it makes the game more fair and therefore much more involved for both players. In the article Physical Computing, Introduction Chapter (p. xvii – p. xxix) , it saids “Computers reduce the barriers of time and space
when playing with and rearranging ideas. As a result, they better depict the changing and manifold relationships between ideas in human thought, and they can be more egalitarian in giving voice to multiple versions of those relationships.” Adding this button make the game more fair and become more competitive, it describe the changing and manifold relationships between ideas in human thoughts, it make the game more complicated, and make more people involved in this game.

Question 2: We used a 10 kOhm resistor in order to input the correct amount of electricity into the buttons to activate it.

Question 3: Keyboard Hacks, this represents the essents of the Arduino way because it was discovered by taking apart things and innovating a smart and better design for the future. it is about trial and errors.