Week 6
Quarantzine
I was the editor of this week together with Laura. The entire zine can be read at https://andreimotian.com/quarantzine/
When is something analogous?
To put it simply, when you do it yourself, most of the time by hand and nothing happens digitally. There are various equipment that work both analog and digital, such as: photo and video cameras, synthesizers, clocks and much more.
Let's use synthesizers as an example. An analog synthesizer is often separate from a computer. You can make music with it with the possibility to transfer it to the computer. With a digital synthesizer, it is often part or plug-in of a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and reproduces the sound of an analog synthesizer. That will never be the same because the waves of analog are smooth and the waves are angular. That wouldn't make much difference to someone like me, but it would to a producer.
Is analog better than digital?
It depends on how you look at it and what the purpose of the use is. Maybe it is in music production. If you look at photography and video, digitalizing has made everything easier for the most users by omitting complex tasks.
Reflection
I was happy when I heard we are going to program with Arduino and I had been looking forward to this for a while. It was my first time working with a breadboard and I really like the possibilities. You can connect many more things at the same time and it is easier to work with resistors. It was just picking up some things again but Arduino was still fresh in my memory.
The assignment was quite easy because I've worked with Arduino before but at the same time I was discovering new things again like making a switch and analog sensor from cardboard and copper tape. The hardest part was connecting everything the right way on the breadboard and knowing wich resistor I needed.
This week got really strange from the moment everyone had to work from home due the Coronavirus. The communication went better than expected, we communicated with each other through WhatsApp and Zoom. Usually it is hard for me to work at home because there is a lot of distraction but at the same time I was not distracted because I was busy doing things that I like. I was limited in the materials I got from school and at home I had some things that could be connected with Arduino.
At first I thought you allready had to made an input and output for this week so I've made a switch that plays a song while connected. Afterwards, that was too much and I did not have any time to make the analog sensor, so i did that later.
In this same week I was the editor for the zine with Laura and that was decided the day before the show & tell, so nobody had their spread done. Because we all are in "quarantine", we decided to do something funny with this week's name "Quarantzine". We communicated through WhatsApp and had in mind that we would be able to print soon again but that was not the case afterwards. We decided to move the deadline to week 9 and instead of a magazine it would be a website.
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