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¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 I attended two events offered through the Grad Center. One was an introduction to physical computing with Arduino Solo and the second was an introduction to GitHub. GitHub work struck me as the more complicated endeavor but that may be because it requires fiddling with network stuff. For example, setting up my own GitHub account and linking a repository to a folder on my laptop? Not too bad. Figuring out how to prompt another user to accept my addition to their repository? Egh. Collaboration is the essential selling point of GitHub – without it keeping track of changes on large projects would be require a lot of needless work. What made GitHub so great was that it was rewarding to learn, not unlike learning a programming language. I also attempted place ASCII art in the proctor’s tutorial folder which begs the question: Can I use GitHub for memes?

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Arduino experimenting was definitely more fun in part because it’s so simple and immediate. I was able to begin going off-course from the tutorial almost immediately because all that was required of me to do so was simply moving some cables. The immediacies of experimenting with physical computing offer certain affordances that tinkering with software cannot. I don’t know how easy collaborative work on Arduino projects would be. Perhaps uploading schematics to GitHub for others to see and makes changes to would be a way to achieve that.