Class 24 – Sound and Audio
Additional Resources:
- What is electronic music, by Herbert Eimert
- Learning Processing: Chapter 20 Sound
Readings
Week 12 – Image, Video and Pixels
class 22 – Image and Video
class 23 – Pixel Manipulation
Additional Resources:
- Learning Processing: Chapter 15 Images
- Learning Processing: Chapter 16 Video
- Computer Vision for Artists and Designers: Pedagogic Tools and Techniques for Novice Programmers
Textbook: Learning Processing
- Learning Processing: Chapter 15 Images
- Learning Processing: Chapter 16 Video
Week 11 – Serial Communication
Class 20 & 21 – Serial Communication
Additional Resources:
Week 10 – Functions – Arrays – OOP
Class 18 – Functions + Arrays
Class 19 – Object Oriented Programing
Additional Resources
- Learning Processing: Chapter 7 Functions
- Learning Processing: Chapter 8 Objects
- Processing.org tutorial on Objects
Week 9 – Animation with Processing
Class 16 – Processing Animation
Class 17 – Loops + Keyboard & Mouse Interaction
Additional Resources
- Learning Processing: Chapter 4 Variables
- Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 4 – Variables
- Learning Processing: Chapter 5 Conditionals
- Learning Processing: Chapter 6 Loops
- Learning Processing: Chapter 3 Interaction
- The art of computer designing, by Osamu Sato
Week 8 – Intro to Programming
class 15 – Intro to Drawing with Processing
Additional Resources
- Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 1 – Hello
- Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 2 – Starting to Code
- Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 3 – Draw
- Learning Processing: Chapter 1 Pixels
- Learning Processing: Chapter 2 Processing
Week 7 – Designing Interaction and User Testing
Class 12 – Designing Interaction
Class 13 – Project Production
Additional Resources
Reading:
Videos:
- Video: Norman Doors (shown in class)
- Video: Objectified (from Lynda platform)
- Rapid Prototyping
- Usability Testing of Fruit
Week 6 – Visual Communication and Digital Fabrication
Class 10 – Visual Communication: 2D
Class 11 – Visual Communication: 3D
Additional Resources
Readings:
- How to Make Almost Anything: The Digital Fabrication Revolution by Neil Gershenfeld.
- Why Do We Need Digital Fabrication Labs in Schools? (Page 6)
Tutorials:
- Lynda.com: Illustrator Training and Tutorials
- Illustrator Workshop
- Illustrator template for laser cut
Vector and Software Resources:
- The Noun Project: https://thenounproject.com/
- Free Vectors: http://www.freepik.com/
- Box Templates
- Maker Case
- Free Fonts
- WTF: What The Font?
- Thingiverse
Software:
IMA resources:
Week 5 – DC Motors / Relays / Stepper Motors
Class 9 – DC Motor Control (Direction) / Stepper Motor Control and High Current Loads
Additional Resources
Week 4 – Project Planning and Servo Motors
Class 7 – Project Planning
Class 8 – DC Motor Control (Speed)
Additional Resources
- Physical Computing’s Greatest Hits (and misses) by Tom Igoe
- A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design by Bret Victor
- Responses: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design by Bret Victor
- Field Guide to Human Centered Design, IDEO (pages 9 to 25)
- Transistors, Relays, and Controlling High Current Loads
- DC Motors: The Basics
- Making Things Move“ by Dustyn Roberts (link to Bobcat) Chapter 6
Week 1 – Introduction, Electricity and Electronics
Class 1 – Introduction & Interaction
Class 2 – Electricity & Electronics
Mandatory Readings
Additional Resources
- Video: Zach Lieberman: Interactive Art
- Electricity: The Basics
- Understanding the Breadboard
- Getting Started in Electronics (pages 6 – 21)
- Crash Course in Solders by Nick Sanchez
Week 2 – Microcontrollers, Digital and Analog
Class 3 – Microcontrollers & Arduino
Class 4 – Digital & Analog Inputs & Outputs
Mandatory Readings
- Physical Computing – Introduction, O’Sullivan and Igoe
- Physical Computing’s Greatest Hits (and misses) by Tom Igoe
Additional Resources
- Download Arduino IDE arduino.cc
- Microcontrollers: The Basics
- Digital Input & Output
- Analog Input
- Analog Output
- Getting Started with Arduino
- Chapter 1 – Introduction
- Chapter 2 – The Arduino Way
- Chapter 3 – The Arduino Platform
- Chapter 4 – Really Getting Started with Arduino
- Chapter 5 – Advanced Input and Output
- Learn electronics with Arduino : an illustrated beginner’s guide to physical computing
Week 3 – Physical Interaction
Class 3 – Iterations, Conditionals and Variables
Class 4 – Sensors and Actuators (Servos)
Mandatory Readings
- Language of New Media, Lev Manovich (pages 27 – 48)
- Making Interactive Art: Set the Stage, Then Shut Up and Listenby Tom Igoe
Additional Resources
- Variables
- Physicality, Tom Igoe
- Programming Terms and Programming Environments
- ART + Science NOW, Stephen Wilson (Algorithm chapter)
- Paul Ford: What is code?
- Arduino Reference: Servo library
- Make: Arduino’s Servo Library: Angles, Microseconds, and “Optional” Parameters
- Arduino Reference: Transistor Motor Control
- Programming Terms and Programming Environments