Zine - Week 6
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Link to the digital zine of week 6:
This week we had to understand a few parts of the texts we had to read. The teacher also wanted us to understand some specific subjects. We could chose from these subjects:
Discuss this week’s work in relation to one of the following…
The difference between digital and analog sensors (if any)
The different meanings of the word analog
The relationship between technological development and the military-industrial complex
Proprietary hardware, software and electronics design
The ideology of “blackboxing” in design and technology
I had chosen this one:
The difference between digital and analog sensors (if any)
The differences between a digital and an analog sensor
The differences are not so big. They both do something when it’s required, but the way they do it is different. The digital sensor can only provide two outcomes or it can only work with these outcomes, which are 0% or 100%. Like on/off, but then in a sensor kind of way. The analog sensors differs in that way, because it can work in outcomes from 0% to 100%. With an analog sensor you can say I want you only to work at 55% or I want you to work only at 55% and a little at 20%.
So you could say there’s a big difference, but I think that depends on what you want to do. If you only want something to work when there is 100% outcome needed or 0%, there is no difference. If you want to make something more specific then there is a big difference.
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