Recitation week3 11:15-12:30: Sensors by Steve Sun

for this session of recitation we made a circuit which consists of a Infrared Distance Sensor which takes the distance from an object as an input and output the distance as integers, and an LED whose brightness indicates the distance. in this case, we used map() funciton to match the max value of the distance of the sensor and the brightness of the LED.

for the code we didn’t go through too much of a problem, but somehow my pratener changed it so that it could appear in one single line…

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?

i just think of how motion sensor could be used in real life and i felt like any form of output which align with the distance input would be at least informative.

Question 2:

Code is often compared to following a recipe or tutorial.  Why do you think that is?

im not sure if it is the process of coding or the code itself. but honestly i don’t feel that either of them is similiar to following a recipe or tutorial… maybe people feel like the computer is following the code as if it was a recipe? 

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?

computers definetely had dramatic changes to human behaviors. in fact, most of the things that we could do today with  computers couldn’t even be imagined to be done in the past.

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