DE: Project 1.1.9 Soldering: Random Number Generator

DE: Project 1.1.9 Soldering: Random Number Generator

How many times has this happened to you? It is a rainy Sunday afternoon, there is nothing on TV, and you decide to play a board game with the family.

You go to the closet and get out the Monopoly^® game only to find that the die is missing (note: die is the singular for dice). Wouldn’t it be great to have a simple electronic device to replace all the dice that have gone missing?

Well, after you complete this project, that’s exactly what you will have.

In this project you will assemble and test a Random Number Generator (RNG) kit that randomly displays a number between one and six in the patterns typically seen on a board game die.

Tape the completed handout into your engineering notebook.

Open Ended

How evenly distributed were the numbers for your Random Number Generator? If your game was perfect, then each number should have come up approximately 16.67% of the time. Do you think your Random Number Generator is fair? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Another word for troubleshooting is debugging. Do a little research (Google, of course) to determine the origin of the term debug and who was the person to coin the phrase.