Servo Magazine ( July 2008 )

Random Bits

By Heather Dewey-Hagborg    View In Digital Edition  


Throughout this column, we have relied on the idea of randomness to seed all of our unconventional computing experiments. In this month’s article, we will take a brief detour from code and hardware to examine just what the concept of “random” actually means, how our microcontroller is implementing it, how this differs from a computer, and some schemes for creating “true” random number generators...

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