1)Reflect how you use technology in your daily life and on the circuits you just built. Use the text Physical Computing and your own observations to define interaction.
Technology is a term that could be used broadly and can encompass many human innovations. I guess technology can be the lamp in my room, my air purifier, my alarm, my computer and even simple things like my multicolored pen. In a way, much around me is technology, whether it uses electronics or not, and whether I can interact with it or not. With that being said, my life is surrounded and fully impacted by technology. I had never actually stopped to think about how all electronics operate, but after building the circuit and connecting the little speaker, I can not stop thinking about how the electronic things around me operate. According to the text Physical Computing, there are three basic elements in interaction: Input, Output, and Processing. These three are needed in order to form an interaction. From what I saw with the little speaker, I interacted with it. I clicked on the button and there was a response to my action embodied through sound. Although simple and barely processed it counts as an interaction. A more complex interaction would probably be Siri on my phone because in a more complex way it processes the input and gives a sufficiently smart response as an output.
Question 2:
Why did we use the 10K resistor with the push button?
We used a resistor to resist the energy that was flowing to control the flow, and this way ensure the circuit was safe for the beep alarm to not be destroyed.
Question 3:
If you have 100,000 LEDs of any brightness and color at your disposal, what would you make and where would you put it?
I would not use it unless the energy came from a source that uses renewable energy. Assuming I was using sustainable energy I would install the number of LEDS available in public hospitals in countries in Central America.
Here I attach some pictures of the circuit bell.
