Class 7 – Project Planning

Readings:

• Making Interactive Art: Set the Stage, Then Shut Up and Listen by Tom Igoe
• Physical Computing’s Greatest Hits (and misses) by Tom Igoe
• A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design by Bret Victor
• Additional reading to be assigned by your instructor.

Discussion:


• Project Production and Prototyping

Class 8 – Workshop

Discussion:

• Work on your stupid pet trick.

Class 5 – Conditionals and Variables

Readings:

• Programming Terms and Programming Environments
• Variables
• Arduino Reference: Servo library


• Make: Arduino’s Servo Library: Angles, Microseconds, and “Optional” Parameters


Discussion:

• If statements and variables with the Arduino

Class 6 – Physical Interaction, Sensors and Actuators

Readings:

• Arduino Reference: Transistor Motor Control
• Additional reading to be assigned by your instructor.

Discussion:

• Physical Interaction, Sensors and Actuators

Class 3 – Intro to Microcontrollers

Download the Arduino IDE arduino.cc

Readings:

• Microcontrollers: The Basics

Textbook: Getting Started with Arduino

• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – The Arduino Way
• Chapter 3 – The Arduino Platform

Discussion:

• Microcontrollers & Arduino

Class 4 – Digital, Analog, Arduino and You!

Readings:

• Digital Input & Output
• Analog Input
• Analog Output
• Additional reading to be assigned by your instructor.

Textbook: Getting Started with Arduino

• Chapter 4 – Really Getting Started with Arduino
• Chapter 5 – Advanced Input and Output

Discussion:

• Digital & Analog Inputs & Outputs

Class 1 – Introduction

Class 2 – Electricity

Readings:

• Electricity: The Basics
• Understanding the Breadboard
• Additional reading assigned by your instructor

Discussion:

• Electricity, Electrical Components & Circuits