Soldering In Practice

The successful soldering of a wire together after so many tries and learning how to solder for the first time.

The process of soldering is first clean the soldering iron tip with the wet sponge located on the soldering stand. Then using the solder lead to wet the tip of the soldering iron and after lightly flick the excessive solder lead on the soldering stand. Take the piece that you want to solder together and heat up the part that is going to be solder then get the solder lead and place it on top of the part that is going to be solder on the other side of opposite from the soldering iron. The process becomes that the solder lead is melting on top of the part that needs to be solder and finally wait for it to quickly dry.

What Exactly Is Interactivity?

1. Are rugs interactive? Explain in your own words why or why not.

 Rugs are and are not interactive by this reading for the reason that they are interactive in that one can move it around to any location, but they also are not interactive for the reason that one can not build the rug yourself to how you want it to look or feel though you can take it apart.

2. Come up with your own damn definition of interactivity.

Interactivity is defined as the ability to interact with an object or system in which one is able to modify, create, or destroy the object or system to one's own subjective preference. 
 
3. Throw this book across the room. Measure the distance traveled and the angle of impact. Draw appropriate conclusions in crayon. 

By throwing a book across a room, one is playing with the interactivity of the space of the room as well as the book as the object being thrown. Though there is a limited amount of interactivity with the book because of the fact that one is not able to change the physical appearance or the content of the book to one's own subjective perspective.

Exploring the Interior of Technology

Exploring the Insides of a cellphone:

The Victim (LG cellphone) of my Dissection

I decided to explore the insides of a cellphone for my curiosity of looking at all the components that makes a cellphone work as well as how every component is connected together.

The component that is the first and easiest to identify is the battery. The battery is an LG Lithium Ion Battery with a 3.7 Volt.

Further taking apart the cellphone I found that it was not easy to identify the components especially without no prior knowledge to the components within a cellphone as well as what I learned in the first lecture.

Taking apart the cellphone even more until I could not take it a part anymore and still found it difficult to identify some of the components except for the circuit board which contains the antenna.

I realized that a cellphone was difficult to identify all of its components especially since none of the components looked like what I learned from the first lecture expect for some of the simple and easy to identify components. I researched more online about some of the components of a cellphone through a website. (http://www.howstuffworks.com/inside-cell-phone.htm)

Exploring the Insides of a Mini Bus Flashlight Key-Chain:

The Next Victim of Dissection 

 So maybe a cellphone was a bit more complicated than I thought of identifying some of the interior components. I decided to try a second attempt, but this time on a simpler object in which it was this mini bus flashlight key-chain.

First step of taking it apart by unscrewing the bottom of the bus key-chain.

Second step removing all of its components.

Two of the components found and easy to identify within the mini bus flashlight was the LED light and two batteries. I began playing around with LED light and the batteries. There was one thing that I found quite strange and that was that the LED light would not light up with only one battery.

By using two batteries on the LED light I was able to lit it up.