Generate concepts:
Describe the project and main goals of the project.
The goal of this project is to understand how a real circuit works. We also learned how to use soldering equipment and how to properly solder on a motherboard. The next using the provided materials we would then create a random number generator, and then decide if it is a fair or not fair number generator.
Conclusion:
1) How evenly distributed were the numbers for your Random Number Generator? If your game was perfect, then each number should have come up approximately 16.67% of the time. Do you think your Random Number Generator is fair? Why or why not?
The number 1 has a 25% of showing up on the number generator while the number 4 only has a 9% chance of appearing, which shows that the number generator is not entirely fair.
2) Another word for troubleshooting is debugging. Do a little research to determine the origin of the term debug and who was the person to coin the phrase.
The origin of "debugging" came from Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940's while she was working on a computer at Harvard University.
Reflection:
When we first started soldering I was soldering extremely slowly, like one solder every 15 seconds. As we continued on throughout the day I began to notice that the reason that I was taking so long was because most of the tip of the solder gun was not on the metal ring and was instead on the green board. So when I changed the way I placed the solder gun, instead of taking 15 seconds to solder one hole, it would then take me 3 to 4 seconds, which is a huge improvement on the time before. Soldering pieces under a time limit is definitely hard, because, if you where to solder the wrong resistor or the negative diode into the positive hole then you would have to re-solder the diode until the old solder can be removed. And then you would have to re solder the diode into the correct hole, same with if you got the wrong resistor. It more than doubles the time it takes you to solder something if you mess up on soldering.