Random Number Generator Soldering Project
Construct and Test the Prototype
Reflection
Being this was my first time working with soldering electronic components to a circuit board, i flt pretty good about the techniques I preformed. In the beginning it took a little bit to get the right amount of solder to use per circuit as I was using way too much.After a while I got a hold of it and it turned really easy to put the components in place. I did run into a problem in which one of my lights wouldn't turn on and two others stayed on always. I had to check my soldering on the chip sockets and found that there wasnt quite enough on some of the various sockets. After applying a little more solder I was able to fix the problem that was going on and the Random Number Generator was working perfectly.
Being this was my first time working with soldering electronic components to a circuit board, i flt pretty good about the techniques I preformed. In the beginning it took a little bit to get the right amount of solder to use per circuit as I was using way too much.After a while I got a hold of it and it turned really easy to put the components in place. I did run into a problem in which one of my lights wouldn't turn on and two others stayed on always. I had to check my soldering on the chip sockets and found that there wasnt quite enough on some of the various sockets. After applying a little more solder I was able to fix the problem that was going on and the Random Number Generator was working perfectly.
Conclusion Questions
1. My Random Number Generator was not fair. The reason being is that the numbers would all have a 16.67% distribution. This was not the case as my 6 has a 21% distribution while my 1 has a 14% distribution. This makes it unfair as 6 will show up more likely than any of the other numbers. It would only be fair if numbers had an even distribution between them making each of the numbers an equal opportunity to obtain.
2. Debugging was first coined in the 1940's when Admiral Grace Hopper was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University. There was a moth discovered on one of the relays which was causing the computer to not function properly and thus the term debugging was made.
1. My Random Number Generator was not fair. The reason being is that the numbers would all have a 16.67% distribution. This was not the case as my 6 has a 21% distribution while my 1 has a 14% distribution. This makes it unfair as 6 will show up more likely than any of the other numbers. It would only be fair if numbers had an even distribution between them making each of the numbers an equal opportunity to obtain.
2. Debugging was first coined in the 1940's when Admiral Grace Hopper was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University. There was a moth discovered on one of the relays which was causing the computer to not function properly and thus the term debugging was made.