Tuesday, February 9, 2010

5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Take off!!!

This is our last class to work on this project so we better work fast. Maddi is completely our circuit board diagram and then answering the questions for our documentation and reflection on materials and what she has learned. I'm finishing this website and answering the questions for our documentation and reflection on electrical engineering and what I've learned. We'll post that stuff on here after we've put it all together. It seems like a lot of work to do in the next week taking into account that we have soo much homework these days. I can't believe everything is do next week, our website, our board, and our documentation. Maddi and I will mostly likely meet on Thursday at lunch to put the board together. Well I should get to answering those questions for our documentation and reflection.
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Proposal for PS1 Controller

What product will you study?

We will study a PlayStation 1 Controller


What brand?

The brand is Sony.

What is your product designed to do?

The product is designed to control the actions of a character in a video game.

Why did you decide to choose it?

We chose it in order to see what parts allow the controller to make the characters function. Also, in order to see why Sony chose the parts they did in order for the controller to work.

What circuitry components do you think you will have to learn about to understand your product?

We will probably have to learn about transistors, diode, circuit board, controls, capacitor, conduction, protection, and insulation.

Upon doing research and finding pictured of the parts, we found a diagram of how the analog stick works. There is also both a circuit board and a printed circuit board. We also need to understand what makes the buttons pressure-sensitive, and we need to find out why the controllers are able to vibrate.

What materials is it made out of?

The controller is made out of mostly of plastic for the outside with some metals and alloys for the inner components such as the circuit board.