DMA Day 2

 Date: 13.8.13
Time: 15:45
Location: Hammarskjold House, Stanford University

During the morning of the second day at the Digital Media Academy, we continued to work on familiarizing ourselves with the programming language of the Arduino.  Adding a servo motor to the breadboard, we worked with manipulating the motor.  Servos would be incredibly important pieces of our final robot, as they would be what moved the attachments.

7 Key Chord Keyboard
Right before lunch we began physically assembling our robots.  The basic robot contains two wheels with motors and one prop wheel.  Attachments are then added to knock over the cups and pickup ping pong balls.

After lunch we had a guest speaker who was a member of the design team for the groundbreaking Google Glass. He is a leader in the field of wearable technology. After a debilitating bicycle accident at the age of 15, he began tinkering in his garage. This led to his invention of a chording keyboard.  This keyboard contains seven keys which can be pushed in various combinations to form over 130 combinations.  This is more than the traditional keyboard's 104.  Once connected through Bluetooth, he can walk around and answer emails at the same time.  When Google called, he immediately jumped aboard and became a handicapped advisor.

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