Week 1

In week 1 we was introduced to the module and had a breakdown of all the assessment criteria. We have a total of three assessments to complete by week  14, with the second due in week 9. It was explained to us that the first assessment was due in week 5 to create a research journal and a studio presentation of our progress. We were also instructed to create a mini artifact were we were fully using the functions of the Arduino board but it had to be hidden. As being on the Maverick Machines course last year during level 5, we never used the Arduino as a portable handheld or hidden device, we always relied on power from either a usb cable or mains voltage.

So with that were exposed to various solutions in order to achieve this portable/handheld Arduino project. One was Arduino Bluetooth:

As you may have guessed this Arduino board can operate using a bluetooth setting, it can interact with any bluetooth device, such as phones and computers. We was also exposed to the fact that the arduino can be powered by a 9v battery.

In this image you can see that all that is required is a 9v battery clip and a 2.5mm power plug. These two need to be soldered together and with the battery there is enough power to operate th arduino, hence making it fully portable.

We were also exposed to various resources such as 

• RJDJ - which we watched a video of during the workshop.
  
• "Bloomberg" - new contemporaries exhibition
• RFID
• "Take Away" Festival
• thishappened.com
• FACT
• "Making Things Talk" Book