Skills Sessions
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Skills sessions this semester consisted of much woodwork which was informative, but was not useful for the remainder of the semester. It was fun, practicing with tools. More importantly, the teaching of touch sensor construction was useful to us. The basic electronics behind 'touch sensors' were the two wire ends connected to a large piece of aluminium foil on each end. When these metallic surfaces came in contact with one another, the circuit would then be complete, which by the EZIO and coding, can be registered as a "touch". So, seperating the two surfaces is foam. Placed between the two sheets of wire-connected aluminium foil, the foam gets holes cut in the middle, of varying sizes. The theory is when pressure is applied to either surface, the pressure will depress the foam, thus suppressing the sheets of foil together, until they touch. When the pressure is taken off, the foam then expands back to its regular form. Thus, a touch pad. Very useful for our assignment.
There were remedial EZIO skills sessions held but we had sufficient knowledge to complete our requirements. There weren't many skills sessions, but the main emphasis this time was our projects. Because such a wide variety of ideas are generated between students, it was hard to provide the right skills sessions.