September 19, 2018 Alizarin Zroob

Intro to Physical Computing: Lab 1 The 1st pcomp lab had one major goal: to get myself familiarized with the new electronic tools, components and knowledge I acquired, hopefully without causing irreversible damage. Following the advice from my elders to necessarily buy my own equipment and absolutely to not buy anything because the lab or somebody has it, I got only a basic toolset. It contained a mini breadboard, some resistors, wires, basic switches and a Metro – Arduino’s least expensive knock-off cousin. The most expensive piece was the multimeter. A first conductivity test on myself revealed to me I’m…