Friday, September 18, 2009

Lab 2/Hello Analog World, meet my Arduino

I just finished lab 2. This lab allows us to start interfacing the analog (variable) world with the digital world of computation. I was primarily interested in using the variable resistors at our disposal to measure force and flexion. As I changed the resistance in the variable resistors with physical force, the LED in my circuit had a proportional voltage applied to it. This lab really started to open my eyes to the possibility we have to connect our physical world to the power of a computational device. Lots of ideas running around my head. Will keep you all updated.