Published by Tom on September 10, 2007 10:46 pm
under Physical Computing
Well here we are, I have finally arrived at my first physical computing lab.It was exciting to actually apply all the electrical theory I collected from the various physics classes I have had in high school and under grad. I must have retained most of the knowledge because I managed to only blow one LED… and it was kinda on purpose. Oh, and I didn’t burn myself with the soldering iron yet-so that is good. After going through the prescribed lab, testing volts, amps and so on, I decided I would make it a habit to take what I learned from each lab and apply it to a idea of my own. I figure this is a good way to make sure I understand the concepts fully, past just following directions.So, for this first lab I combined a couple concepts (components): voltage regulation, LEDs, switches, potentiometers, bread boards… and came up with a cute little LED array that forms a gradient of intensity. Additionally, I wired up a pot into the circuit to raise and lower the overall intensity of the LED array, and a switch to turn it on and off. Getting off the bread board was also important to me, so I mounted the whole circuit onto a surface and tried to make it look decent… which was hard because controlling wires is difficult; I will have to work on that.
That’s it, hope you enjoy! |
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