Computer Science Symposia
Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium 2002
Session Presentations
Getting to the Bottom of Computer Hardware: Creating Chips, Gates,
and Interfaces
by Graham Smyth
Through hands-on activities participants will build inexpensive
peripherals,
write software and develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for
interfacing
activities. Starting with a single LED (Light Emitting Diode)
activity, participants
will learn how to display binary numbers in the real world and display
their
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) coded name
in lights.
Demonstrations of student built interfacing systems will include
"One Byte
in a Block", "Night Rider", "Traffic Lights"
and the
"Music Box Tester". These interfacing activities and
demonstrations
will be placed in the context of the Computer Engineering courses.
For more information, please contact Linda Keller, Project Manager,
ISTE at:
lkeller@iste.org.
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