TuteSpark in the Tutorial

Mission:

Write 3 examples of digital devices that are not electronic.

We have to define- digital, analogue, communication and electronic first to help us find these examples.

So first off, we have digital:

digital, n. and adj.

Relating to or operating with signals or information represented by discrete numeric values of a physical quantity such as voltage or magnetic polarization (commonly representing the digits 0 and 1); designating a signal or information of this kind.

Discovered from: Oxford English Dictionary, http://dictionary.oe

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xy.griffith.edu.au/cgi/entry/50063921?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=digital&first=1&max_to_show=10, Accessed on the 11th August 2010

Digital is also in opposition to analogue, which comes next...

analogue, n. and adj.

Relating to or operating with signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity, such as voltage, spatial position, etc., which in the case of measuring instruments can be displayed on a dial or other fixed scale. Also: designating a signal represented in this way.

Discovered from: Oxford English Dictionary, http://dictionary.oed.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/cgi/entry/50007887?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=analogue&first=1&max_to_show=10, Accessed on the 11th August 2010

When looking at the definition of 'communication', I didn't find one I particularly liked. But they used worlds like 'exchange' and 'transmission'. So paraphrased in my own words, communication is the exchange or transmission of information, knowledge, body language, etc. with another being or digital device.

Discovered from: Oxford English Dictionary, http://dictionary.oed.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/cgi/entry/50045213?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=communication&first=1&max_to_show=10, Accessed on the 11th August 2010

Electronic- Of a device: opera

ting according to the principles or methods of electronics, such as a transistor, microchip, or electron tube; operating by means

of or employing such devices

Discovered from: Oxford English Dictionary,http://dictionary.oed.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/cgi/entry/50073038?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=electronic&first=1&max_to_show=10, Accessed on the 11th August 2010

Now the TuteSpark. In my previous blog I posted about the abacus, which is one of the non electronic communication devices I thought of.

The second one would be: Morse Code.

Morse Code was a device used before internet, and telephones to transport messages to one another. It used a small device in which you enter a certain amount of taps, and that would spell out a word, and then of course a message.

Not something that would be easy to have a long conversation with I can imagine.

The Third One would be a Musical Instrument.

A musical instrument could be classified as a stretch, but it is one something in which can communicate to people. It has the ability to release emotion and feeling without using words and it uses a logical method to sound good.