Right, as I’ve stated before, logic gates are made up of lots of components arranged in just the right way to produce a desired logical outcome. If you had to build one of these circuits each time you needed a gate you’d probably throw your hands up in disgust as it would not only take huge […]

So what is binary? To date my only contact with binary code has been to understand this joke, I know it’s all about a 2 digit system consisting of 1s and 0s and that the binary digit for 2 is 10 (confused yet? ask me to go further than 2 in binary and I will […]

One thing you can’t get away from when investigating digital circuits is logic. I already had a vague inkling of what logic and logic gates were when I started this investigation but boy did I underestimate the scope! Here’s what I found out… Digital circuits are made up of digital switches called gates or logic […]

The first step is to find out why digital electronics are different for any other type, what makes it different? The defining point is the signals involved… An electrical signal is a pattern over time of electrical current, there are two types of signal: digital and analogue. As you can tell by the name digital […]

I’ve downloaded and had a go at the BBC Bitesize electronics exam paper and I’ve come out with (using very gerenral grading bands) something like a C! That came as a huge surprise, it seems as though I really don’t have that much confidence in my own knowledge of electronics, well that showed me! It’s […]

Oh boy, my meeting with Dean did not go so well this morning… I’ve spent the last week reading around my notes on electronics and reading a couple of books on the subject. The problem is I’m still not focused enough, I could spend the rest of this semester reading around electronics and still not […]

Ok, what is competence? I should start with the work I did way back when at the start of the course, the passage below is the introduction to my skills audit: As this journal is designed to assess my capability in the subject areas listed at the start of each section of this document I […]

Panic over it’s just BMW’s concept car GINA “Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptations”  (the ‘N’ stands for infinite)  

I felt particularly unprepared for the session today, I still didn’t have any real idea about where this project was going this morning. I now know it is not supposed to be initially product centered, the research we will be engaging in may lead to the creation of a product but  to focus down too early would be […]

The skills audit is all about developing competences in my subject area, so to be able to rate my development I needed to try and define competence. As I mentioned before I had had a go at this definition back at the start of the course and the information I gathered formed the introduction to my […]