Week 8

Welcome to Input Week.

Group Assignment and Training

Learning to use the voltage oscilloscope and the logic tool (again).

Erik Cissi

Personal Assignment

Input microphone for my Kobe Kan final project.

So the idea here is to make a trash can which responds to certain microphone inputs, like a snap, by opening the lid. And maybe yelling "RIP Kobe" after.

Oscar

The design process went all okay.

Design

The Carvera was back online!

Back to the Carvera

Some breadboarding attempts.

Breadboard

But then I faced my true enemy: Soldering.

I practiced, and practiced some more.

Soldering practice

But still — soldering and tiny pads ultimately defeated me.

In fact, one of my microphones just exploded.

Microphone exploded

In the end, with little time left, I decided to dedicate a monument to the exploded microphones.

Input: Monument. Response: Awe.

AMEN AMEN

RIP.