Thursday, March 10, 2011

In the morning, we learned about User Interface. We listed household
chores, that we didn't like to do. Some of the chores that we listed
were taking out the trash and walking the dog. My group of Maurice,
George and I picked walking the dog and the other group made up of
Isaiah,victor and Salim picked taking out the trash. We created
machines to do these tasks for us. We did a process of multiple
brainstorms and also did a diagram of our machines. We had to make a
name for our product and a sketch. Then after that we had to write out
the steps to using the product. After that we listed the inputs and
outputs of our machines. Some of our inputs were like the power switch
and the analog stick. Some of our outputs were the speakers for the
microphone. We thought that the microphone would be a good idea
because then we could tell the dog commands while not having to
actually be there. Another output was the monitors, we used the
monitors for the cameras attached to the device so we could actually
see what was going on. Another thing we leaned was the difference
between analog and digital. An analog is something with a range of
value. A digital switch is a two position switch.
In the afternoon, a few men from the NASA program came to talk to us
about how we can get involved with the program. One of the men was
frank, the other was Ruben. Frank talked about several programs we
could get involved in. One of the programs was a two week summer
experience for 10th grade students. We could apply and go to a college
that the NASA program is involved with. The other man Ruben showed us
several videos.He also talked about how different programs are
creating different techniques to basically deflect the meteor from
hitting earth.