Week 2.

Intro

For week two each person in the group brought in numerous electronic devices to take apart and discover there inner workings. We brought in a remote, dvd player, cd player, rotating alarm clock and a camera. We learned most from the dvd player and cd player as they used physically moving parts that were influenced by electronics. The interaction between physical parts in these electronics were greater then the physical parts in the other electronics. 

We harvested many parts from the electronics that we believed would give us inspiration and help us discover more ways of applying the arduino to a context with a user behaviour. We then tried making the harvested parts work on there own and then we tried applying them to the arduino. We discovered that a lot of speakers, lights and motors were working on there own and with the arduino. We also completed many task from black board and used these codes and the arduino to see if our harvested parts worked.

Workshop

Everything we took apart had a similar input but various outputs. We decided that if we wanted to explore more inputs we would need to take apart things such as solar lights that have a light sensor or products that had motion or pressure sensors. We found it very difficult to try to get parts working that were not conventionally used with certain arduino codes. 

We were able to make small changes to the arduino code such as timing sound tones and turning lights on and off. We also discovered an extra part of the arduino software that allowed us to read a script of exactly what input the ardunio was receiving. The group decided from this workshop that we should all research more about the programing side of the task is it seems this will be the most difficult aspect.