Physical Computing 9.26.19

This week I was only able to get through the labs. The first lab had us connect a servo motor to the breadboard. I could see many uses for this, I just couldn’t quite wrap my head around a fun way to use it.

servo motor hooked up to breadboard controlled by a force sensitive resistor.

Next was a few different ways to hook a speaker up. Paulami helped me out with this, as I was having trouble understanding the diagram provided on the PComp site. She helped me with a barebones setup that allowed me to get a sense of how to make it work. I was surprised by how quiet the sound was, but it was super satisfying to hear it work. Later on Erkin showed me how a transistor could boost the volume up a bunch. When I make more time to work with this setup, I can see how it would be fun to create instruments with it.