On Randomness II
In addition to pointing us to a different shift register that should work with our 7-segment display Scott F. came up with a great idea for the seed input for our I,Ching program. So we have decided to adopt the antennae approach. We'll insert one end of a wire into one of the Arduiono's inputs and leave the other end unattached and free floating. It will pick up whatever electrons are floating around in the air at the time and feed them into the system. When a person approaches the device to make a reading their presence will be interpreted by the antennae and alter the seed input. We all really liked this development! It just seemed like a brilliant solution to what seemed like an alomost overly rational way of initiating a prediction/reading. Now it seems as if atleast some element of chance has been reintroduced into the system...