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IT 331 Week 2

IT 331 Week 2 Describe the series of connections that would be made, equipment and protocol changes, if you connected your laptop to a wireless hotspot and opened your email program and sent an email to someone. Think of all the layers and the round trip the information will likely make. The first thing you need to do is to turn on the wireless hotspot and to search for the available Wi-Fi connections. Choose the needed one and enter the required login and password; this information acts as the encryption key that transmits traffic. Then, open the email app; ...

Atari Rapid Growth

Atari’s rapid growth is attributed to the decision of its founder to transform the traditional gaming machines into a smaller home machine. Bushnell compressed the coin-operated Pong game into a smaller home system. The Atari 2600 was the most successful home based gaming system that used cartridge.

How Did Ninitendo Successfully Recreate the Home Video Game Business Following the Atari - Era Boom and Bust?

After the boom and bust of the Atari, Nintendo focused on a diversification strategy. Initially, the company focused on the production of playing cards before the diversification to the production of the video game business. As such, the organization acquired a licensing to produce video games from Magnafox, which led to ...

Each bulb "checks in" to the Internet every hour each day with its status and energy usage (one data point): There are 24 hours in a day. 5 bulbs×1datapointhour×24hoursday×8bytesdatapoint=960bytesday The user remotely controls their lights once a day on average (one data point for all bulbs, not one for each): 1datapointday×8bytesdatapoint=8bytesday The user checks the status once a day (one data point): 1datapointday×8bytesdatapoint=8bytesday Total: 960+8+8=976bytesday

How much data is transferred each week?

There are 7 days in a week. Total: 976bytesday ×7daysweek=6832bytesweek

How much data is transferred each year?

There are 365 days in a year. Total: 976bytesday ×365daysyear=356240bytesyear

What if 30 million homes had this same setup – how much data would be transferred each year altogether?

Simply multiply the annual ...

This chapter consists of project testing and results as well as the problems faced during the project completion.

I2C Communication between Raspberry Pi and Arduino After connecting the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino through I2C, the environment on the Raspberry Pi is set up. The Raspberry Pi identifies Arduino Uno by detecting the slave address sent by Arduino Uno. The slave address is set through the uploaded program code on the Arduino. The following test was conducted for testing the I2C bus between the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino. The address was set to 00×04. Below is the result when i2cdetect –y 1 is typed allowing the Raspberry Pi to detect the connected slaves through I2C. ...