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Today, I'm going to talk to you about sketching electronics . 今天,我要向大家介绍手绘电路技术。
sketching:v.画素描;画速写;概述;简述;(sketch的现在分词) electronics:n.电子学;电子工业;
I'm, among several other things, an electrical engineer, and that means that I spend a good amount of time designing and building new pieces of technology , and more specifically designing and building electronics. 我的身份之一是电子工程师, 这意味着我将很大一部分时间 用在设计和建造新技术上, 更具体说就是设计和构造电路。
electrical:adj.有关电的;电气科学的; technology:n.技术;工艺;术语; specifically:adv.特别地;明确地;
And what I've found is that the process of designing and building electronics is problematic in all sorts of ways. 可是我发现电路的设计构造过程 无论从那个角度看,都存在问题。
process:v.处理;加工;列队行进;n.过程,进行;方法,adj.经过特殊加工(或处理)的; problematic:adj.问题的;有疑问的;不确定的;
So it's a really slow process, it's really expensive, and the outcome of that process, namely electronic circuit boards, are limited in all sorts of kind of interesting ways. 开发时间太长,花的钱太多, 最终的产出 就是一块电路板, 怎么看都不那么有趣。
outcome:n.结果,结局;成果; namely:adv.也就是;即是;换句话说; circuit:n.环行路线;电路;线路;巡回赛;v.巡回;周游; limited:adj.有限的; n.高级快车; v.限制; (limit的过去分词和过去式)
So they're really small, generally , they're square and flat and hard, and frankly, most of them just aren't very attractive , and so my team and I have been thinking of ways to really change and mix up the process and the outcome of designing electronics. 它们都很小,一般都是四四方方的 又平又硬,老实说,大多数电路板 都没啥意思,所以我和我的小组 一直在思考怎样才能彻底改变 电路的设计过程和最终的产出。
generally:adv.通常;普遍地,一般地; attractive:adj.吸引人的;有魅力的;引人注目的;
And so what if you could design and build electronics like this? So what if you could do it extremely quickly, extremely inexpensively , and maybe more interestingly , really fluidly and expressively and even improvisationally? 如果可以这样设计和构造电路会不会很好? 如果你可以非常快速的构造电路, 超级便宜,并且非常有趣 非常流畅,非常直观,甚至是即兴地构造?
what if:如果…怎么办? extremely:adv.非常,极其;极端地; inexpensively:adv.廉价地,不践地;花费不多地; interestingly:adv.有趣地; fluidly:流动地;不定地;液体地;流畅地;
Wouldn't that be so cool, and that wouldn't that open up all sorts of new possibilities? 这样是不是很酷,会不会给电路设计 带来更多的可能性?
I'm going to share with you two projects that are investigations along these lines, and we'll start with this one. 我接下来介绍的两个项目 就是针对这两个问题。这是第一个。
investigations:n.调查(investigation的复数);
(Video) Magnetic electronic pieces and ferrous paper. (视频)电磁元件,和含铁的纸
Magnetic:adj.像磁铁的;有磁性的;磁的;富有吸引力的; ferrous:adj.[化学]亚铁的;铁的,含铁的;
A conductive pen from the Lewis lab at UIUC. 导电笔,来自UIUC大学 Lewis 实验室
conductive:adj.传导的;传导性的;有传导力的;
Sticker templates . 贴纸模板
Sticker:n.粘贴标签;贴纸; templates:n.模板;范本(template的复数);属性单元;
Speed x 4. (四倍速度播放)
Making a switch. 做一个开关
Music: DJ Shadow. 音乐:《DJ Shadow》
Adding some intelligence with a microcontroller. 加上一个高级一点的控制器
intelligence:n.智力;智慧;才智;(尤指关于敌国的)情报;
Sketching an interface . 画一个交互的接口
interface:n.接口;人机界面;连接电路;v.连接;
(Music) (音乐)(钢琴的声音)
(Laughter) (笑声)
(Applause) (掌声)
Pretty cool, huh? We think so. 很酷吧!我们也这么觉得。
So now that we developed these tools and found these materials that let us do these things, we started to realize that, essentially , anything that we can do with paper, anything that we can do with a piece of paper and a pen we can now do with electronics. 我们开发了这些工具 发现这些工具能够做这么多的事情, 我们意识到:本质上来说, 任何能用纸完成的事情, 任何靠纸和笔能做到的事情, 我们都可以做成电路来完成。
essentially:adv.本质上;本来;
So the next project that I want to show you is kind of a deeper exploration of that possibility. 下一个要我要展示给大家的项目 更深入的探索了手绘电路的各种可能性。
exploration:n.探索;勘探;探险;[医]探查术;
And I'll kind of let it speak for itself. 接下来不用我解释。
speak for:要求得到;代表…讲话;
(Music) (音乐)
(Applause) (掌声)
So the next step for us in this process is now to find a way to let all of you build things like this, and so the way that we're approaching that is by teaching workshops to people where we explain 我们下一个目标 是让你们所有人 都能做出类似的东西来。 为了达到这个目标 我们举办教学沙龙
approaching:v.靠近,接近;接洽;建议;要求;(approach的现在分词) workshops:n.工作坊,[工业]车间;研习会,讲习班(workshop的复数形式);
how they can use these kinds of tools, and then also working to get the tools and the materials and techniques out into the real world in a variety of ways. 来教大家如何使用这些工具 我们也在努力将这些工具和技术 通过多种途径传播到(实验室之外的)现实世界中。
techniques:n.技巧;技艺;工艺;技术;(technique的复数) variety:n.多样;种类;杂耍;变化,多样化;
And so sometime soon, you'll be able to play and build and sketch with electronics in this fundamentally new way. 所以不久后,你们就可以用这个新颖的技术 自己构造手绘电路了。
fundamentally:adv.从根本上;基础地;重要地
So thank you very much. (Applause) 非常感谢。(掌声)