Basic Electronics for Tomorrow's Inventors

CHAPTER 17 Pick a Number! Create a Random Number Generator

GAMES ARE PART OF OUR EVERYDAY LIVES, whether they are simple board games, more complex handheld electronic games, or games that use consoles. We like to play games because they can be exciting and they help us to pass the time. I’m sure that lots of times you have been so engrossed in playing a game that you lose track of time—before you know it, several hours have passed. This part of the book contains experiments that let you explore how you can use various electronic building blocks to creating your own electronic game circuits.

We’ll start with an experiment to create a random number ...