sungjin's technology crossword
Across
- 2. A microcontroller, a basic computing device often used in low budget interactive physical computing projects.
- 3. Wireless technology used for transmitting data over short distances.
- 5. Information stored as discrete values usually represented as numbers. This contrasts with analogue data which is represented by continuous data, usually in waves.
- 8. hard drive
- 9. Computer-aided design - the use of computers to assist in any of the phases of product design.
- 11. The smallest unit of data in computing represented by a 1 in binary.
- 12. mouse, keyboard, webcam, games controller
- 13. A unit of data containing 8 bits.
Down
- 1. Command line interface - a method of running programs and working on a computer using only text. This contrasts with a graphical interface which uses clickable icons and menus.
- 2. Continuous data, eg the second hand on an analogue watch displays each second and the space in between.
- 4. screen, printer, speakers, headphones
- 6. American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A 7-bit character set used for representing English keyboard characters.
- 7. A writing system used by blind and partially sighted people, using raised dots on paper that is read by touch.
- 10. A number system that contains two digits, 0 and 1. Also known as base 2.
- 11. A plastic, circular disc used to store up to 50 GB of music, video or data. Blu-ray discs are optical storage media, similar to CDs and DVDs.