Recitation 3
The first circuit that we built was using the variable resistors which is light sensor, . s a type of variable resistor that has a resistive value which changes based on the amount of light shone onto it. As we covered the light sensor to create darkness, the LED on our Arduino blinked much faster, and when it was in the light, the LED blinking was much slower.
In order to make the circuit work we used:
- Arduino
- 10K ohm photoresistor and 10K ohm resistor
- built-in LED on pin 13
The circuit was built using these models found on: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogInput
Question 1:
What did you intend to assemble in the recitation exercise? If your sensor/actuator combination were to be used for pragmatic purposes, who would use it, why would they use it, and how could it be used?
We intended to build both the variable resistor sensor, and the joystick module. The joystick module was much harder to understand as our joystick did not match the one in the explanation so we were not sure on how to make it work. The TA that we asked also did not understand much but the professor explained well which sensors we had to connect with which and we managed to make it work as such:
Question 2:
Code is often compared to following a recipe or tutorial. Why do you think that is?
Because a cooking recipe is meant to be fairly simple and straightforward. We simply need to follow step by step just like coding, every sentence is straightforward and is read in a linear method.
Question 3:
In Language of New Media, Manovich describes the influence of computers on new media. In what ways do you believe the computer influences our human behaviors?
“The internet which can be thought of as one huge distributed media database… overabundance of information of all kind” (Manovich 16) explains how I believe that computer influences our human behaviours as we become dependent on their information and lose the ability to learn all of this knowledge. Such as spelling becomes so easily corrected on the computer, we forget the basic spelling rules, or mathematical rules with the calculator.