Week 5: Hardware Basics 2

A large part of my entrepreneurial idea is the fact that it’s necessary for all articles of clothing to have a photo of it in the system. This being said, each article needs to be inputted from the camera that takes a picture of it, to the computer to be put into the system. A digitizer must be used to do this where it captures input from a camera and converts it into a digital signal. It then is store in the memory and is able to be displayed on the screen, and therefore can be used in the system.

All the pictures of the pieces of clothing need to be able to seen clearly and vividly in order for the user of this system to be able to see what they’re going to be wearing. The output from the computer to the user is what helps the user see the pictures. Depending on the resolution, or number of pixels displayed on screen, the pictures can be very clear or not so much. The higher the resolution, the closer together the pixels are causing it to have a better picture.

Lastly, the color depth also affects the quality of the picture. The color depth is the number of different colors that the monitors can display at once. Also known as the bit depth, the larger the color depth the more vivid the pictures of the clothing will be.

Week 4: Hardware Basics

            For my entrepreneurial idea, the specific information encoded in it is the pictures of the clothing and the words in the options that you choose. Each separate piece of clothing is one piece of the information, as well as each word in the choices for weather, mood, and occasion. Also, the instructions for the system are encoded as information.

            Considering a byte can represent 256 combinations, in this system a byte can represent 256 combinations of mood/occasion/weather and also 256 combinations of pieces of one’s wardrobe. Therefore, how many combinations there may be in the options and the articles of clothing, this system can have a storage size of a kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, etc. It all depends on how many pieces of clothing one has. However, there are only “x” amount of options for the mood, weather, and occasion and therefore the storage space for that would be a specific amount.

            In order for the system to work properly, it has to keep up with how the file formats change over time in order to not deteriorate. When using this system people have to update the software or means of disc format it is on. It may possible start as a CD-ROM to install onto ones computer now, however in a few years a different means will be needed. 

Week 3: Software

My entrepreneurial idea is to create a system in which a person’s entire wardrobe is in their computer and by clicking options including the weather for the day, the type of occasion you are dressing for (class, party, hanging out with friends, etc) and mood, the system picks out an outfit for you based on what you click. In last week’s class we spoke about software, computer language, and algorithms. The system that would be used in my idea is considered a software being that it is used on the computer.

A software program is considered a collection of algorithms to solve a problem. This software needs procedures, or algorithms, in order to manage the items of clothing as well as the options one should click. Also, it needs an algorithm for what item of clothing goes with what option.

This system is considered an applications software. It performs the task for the person trying to pick out their outfit. This is a personal and productivity type of application software.