Week Two

31/07/2012

Lourens Adrian Botha

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Programming One Blinking LED

This week each group received a Arduino kit and basic components. We were shown some of its possibilities but after some research it was apparent that Auduino was only limited to your imagination and programing ability. I have also seen some programming on Mat Lab and the Audrino programming  Language is far more simple to use.

Workshop


In this weeks workshop we began programming  Arduino Kinetic Interaction tut1 and 2.
We deconstructed a pump, mobile phone and alarm. Myself and Jack focused on how the bike pump could be utilized as and input and output. This resulted in a various concepts ideas from water light display to a bobbing shark fin.  Some usefull components found were a mic, a speaker, a camera and various buttons. Yasu advised to stay away from a machanical input and output such as the pump because of its limited capacity and suggested we carry on thinking creatively about the electronic components we had. 
By the end of the session we were still expore'ing the possibilities of the components and its possible uses