Class 24 – Images and Video

Textbook: Learning Processing

• Learning Processing: Chapter 15 Images
• Learning Processing: Chapter 16 Video

Discussion:

• Images, Video and Pixels

Class 25 – Pixel Manipulation

Readings:

• 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

Discussion:

• Pixel Iteration & Manipulation and Computer Vision

Classes 20 & 21 – Digital Fabrication 1 & 2

Readings:

• How to Make Almost Anything: The Digital Fabrication Revolution by Neil Gershenfeld.

Discussion:

• How is digital prototyping affecting the manufacturing and designing industries

• Maker culture & corporate culture

Class 19 – Sound and Audio

Readings:

• What is electronic music, by Herbert Eimert

Textbook: Learning Processing

• Learning Processing: Chapter 20 Sound

Discussion:

• Audio in Processing

Class 17 – Objects Oriented Programming

Readings:

• Learning Processing: Chapter 8 Objects
• Processing.org tutorial on Objects
• Additional reading to be assigned by your instructor.

Discussion:

• Object Oriented Programming

Class 18 – DC and Stepper Motor Control

Readings:

• Transistors, Relays, and Controlling High Current Loads

• DC Motors: The Basics
• ” Making Things Move“ by Dustyn Roberts (link to Bobcat) Chapter 6
• ART + Science NOW, Stephen Wilson (Kinetics chapter)
• Additional reading to be assigned by your instructor.

Discussion:

• DC Motors

Class 13 – Midterms

Readings:

• Video: Nobumichi Tosa Interview

Class 13 – Arrays & Strings

Readings:

• Learning Processing: Chapter 9 Arrays
• Strings from Processing.org
• Additional reading to be assigned by your instructor.

Discussion:

• Arrays

Class 14 – Interaction Design

Readings:

• Video: Norman Doors (shown in class)
• Video: Objectified (from Lynda platform)
• The Future of Design: when you come to a fork, take it
• Additional reading to be assigned by your instructor.

Discussion:

• Interaction Design

Class 11 – Serial Communication

Readings:

• Serial Communication: The Basics
• Interpreting Serial Data
• Additional reading to be assigned by your instructor.

Discussion:

• Serial communication between the Arduino and the computer

Class 12 – Mouse and Keyboard Interaction

Readings:

• Learning Processing: Chapter 3 Interaction
• Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better
• Additional reading to be assigned by your instructor.

Discussion:

• Interaction Design, Mouse & Keyboard Interaction & The Graphical User Interface

Class 9 – Intro to Drawing with Processing

Readings:

• 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

Discussion:

• Programming, Processing & Drawing

Class 10 – Animation in Processing

Readings:

• 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 7 Functions
• [optional] The art of computer designing, by Osamu Sato

Discussion:

• Animation, Variables and Loops

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
• Responses: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design by Bret Victor
• Field Guide to Human Centered Design, IDEO (pages 9 to 25)
• 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:

• Variables
• Physicality, Tom Igoe
• Programming Terms and Programming Environments
• ART + Science NOW, Stephen Wilson (Algorithm chapter) [optional]
• Paul Ford: What is code? [optional]

Discussion:

• If statements and variables with the Arduino

Class 6 – Physical Interaction, Sensors and Actuators

Readings:

• Arduino Reference: Servo library


• Make: Arduino’s Servo Library: Angles, Microseconds, and “Optional” Parameters
• Arduino Reference: Transistor Motor Control
• Language of New Media, Lev Manovich (pages 27 – 48)

Discussion:

• Physical Interaction, Sensors and Actuators

Class 3 – Intro to Microcontrollers

Download Arduino IDE arduino.cc

Textbook: Getting Started with Arduino

• Chapter 3 – The Arduino Platform

Readings:

• Microcontrollers: The Basics

Discussion:

• Microcontrollers & Arduino

Class 4 – Digital, Analog, Arduino and You!

Readings:

• Digital Input & Output
• Analog Input
• Analog Output
• Physical Computing – O’Sullivan and Igoe (Introduction)
• 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

• Zach Lieberman: Interactive Art (seen in class)

Class 2 – Electricity

Textbook: Getting Started with Arduino

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

Readings:

• Electricity: The Basics
• Understanding the Breadboard
• Crawford, Chris. The art of interactive design : a euphonious and illuminating guide to building successful software (extract of chapter 1) 
• Getting Started in Electronics (pages 6 – 21) [optional]
• Additional readings assigned by your instructor

Discussion:

• Electricity, Electrical Components & Circuits