Materials:

• 1 * Breadboard: to extend the Arduino board
• 1 * Buzzer: to make the sound of the alarm
• 1 * Arcade Button: to control the buzzer
• 1 * 220-ohm Resistor: to reduce the circuit and protect the components
• 1 * 10K ohm Resistor:to reduce the circuit and protect the components
• 1 * 100 nF (0.1uF) Capacitor: stabilize the circuit
• 1 * 12 volt power supply : supply the power of the circuit

Task 1: Build the circuits

With your partner, build Circuit 1: Door Bell, Circuit 2: Lamp, and Circuit 3: Dimmable Lamp on a breadboard, based on the provided schematics. When you’ve finished a circuit, take pictures or film the finished circuit working. Record notes about the building process for each circuit, such as problems that you encountered, and how you fixed them.

Note: To help you read the schematics for the circuits, you may look at the components and their symbols at the bottom of this document, or refer to the diagrams in this reading.

Circuit 1: Door Bell

 

Documentation:

For our documentation, we are told to build the circuit and used the pre-built code to make a doorbell.   At first, we are given a button to control the circuit. Before the recitation, I had a soldering workshop, so we can solder the button with wires to connect it to the circuit. When we want to cut wires we encounter a problem: we kept cutting the whole wire up instead of the wrapper of the wire. Luckily, after asking a fellow,   we finally learn the technique to cut wires. 

Then, when it comes to the true soldering process, we have some tiny accidents like we touched the plastic part of the button and caused a bad smell. We are afraid of the safety problems, though.

We also had some problems while we were connecting the circuit. We didn’t know how to connect the circuit and thought the breadboard is too complex to use, so we just used Arduino Board to connect that. As a result, we cannot build the circuit. With the help of fellows, we succeeded in building it with a breadboard. Limited by the time, we only finished the first one. The video is put above.   

The function of the component of also above.

Question 1:

After reading The Art of Interactive Design, in what way do you think that the circuits you built today include interactivity? Please explain your answer.

We pressed to button, and then the buzzer make the sound. The button works as a input, and the buzzer worked as an output. These relations between human and none-human is called the interaction.

Question 2:

How can Interaction Design and Physical Computing be used to create Interactive Art? You can reference Zack Lieberman’s video or any other artist that you know.

For me, the most impressive art is the mechanical mirror. That device works like a normal mirror, however, it used the computer technology to make a unique experience of the mirror. I think contemporary computer art is completely different from the traditional art.