banner image

:: PhysComp Notes

Motor Lab

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

This week’s lab covered working with a motor.
In class Tom went over the principle of inductance. I will post more on these notes later.
For now here’s a quick update on the lab.
I had already had experience wiring up a simple transistor/diode/motor combo using the TIP120 when we worked on our Plushy project. For […]

Audio Exercise

Friday, October 21st, 2005

This morning we met as a group and discussed our ideas in greater detail. Wendy, Fazreen, and I are working together on this assignment. Wendy’s idea is to do an audio montage on New York, using ambient sounds, street noise, radio interviews, and music, in a deconstructed - reconstructed montage.
I liked […]

Serial Out

Monday, October 10th, 2005

The first night that I worked on this lab, I was stuck for a while not being able to get any proper outputs to hyperterminal. No values whatsoever. The first thing that Todd H. noticed when looking over my board was that I had my input switch wired backwards. I think for […]