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Sensors and actuators
Dr Steven Houben explains how the devices use real world energies to transform digital information into physical phenomena in the real world.
Let’s take a closer look at transduction devices.
In this presentation, Dr Steven Houben explains how the devices use real world energies to transform digital information into physical phenomena in the real world. He will show you up-close examples of these sensors and actuators at work.
Over to you:
Think about the physical computing device that you chose in the previous step.What role do the output transducers, or actuators, play in your device?
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