Weekly breakdown
Please note the this detailed shedule is updated on a weekly basis. Refer to this page for latest assignments.
Switch
Sept 6
Orientation.
Lab: Basic electricity introduced -Class notes
Sept 13
Principals of designing interactions including Affordance, Mapping, Feedback and Constrains. Review of User Centered design and the tools available to apply it at the earliest stages.
Lab:
Key electrical concepts, introduction to the Arduino environment and main electronic components – Class Notes on Digital Out
Due:
– Sign-up to the class mailing list
– Prepare personal class website
– Post progress report on your design exercise 1: Make a switch
– Send me an email with your website's URL
– Get required electronics components
– Attend a Sensor lab orientation session (to be booked with Elio)
– Be prepared to show progress for your Switch
Animate
Sept 20
Kinetic Art overview
Lab:
Class notes: Digital Input
Class notes: DC Motors
Due:
– Design exercise 1: Make a Switch
Readings:
– Norman, The Design of Everyday objects, Chapter 1
– Norman, Emotional Design, Prologue
Sept 27
Lab class only.
6:00 - 8:00: (on your own)
1/ Review DC Motor lab from September 27th
2 / HBridge motor control. Resources:
–
Sensor Lab info
–
Motor Control Labfrom ITP/NYU
– SN754410 Datasheet (in your kit)
8:30 - 10:30: (with Elio)
– Controlling Servo motors
– Relays
– Advanced (optional): Optical Encoding
Due:
– Week 1 deliverable for the Animated Object(online!)
Reading:
– Tom Igoe, Physical Computing's Greatest Hits (and misses), July 28th 2008
Oct 4
Making things: open source design and the culture of making.
Lab:
– Serial communication basics
Advanced:
– Shift Registers
Due:
– Week 2 deliverable for the Animated Object(in class and online)
Reading:
– Arduino Programming Notebook, v1.1, Brian W. Evans
Sense
Oct 11
Animation in class presentations
Lab:
– Introduction to digital and analog Sensing - Lab notes
Due:
– Make sure you are up to date on the lab content and readings
– Final version for the Animated Object, including all online deliverable up to date.
Oct 18
Touch, e-textile and soft computing
Lab:
– Making soft circuits, materials and technics
– Make a soft switch
– Make a discreet sensor (min. 3 states) or a resistive sensor using the materials described in class.
Due:
– Sensor Research due. Please follow the outline for the report and post them on your websites (work in groups of 2).
Oct 25
Review of tangible interface design History and best practices
Lab:
– Serial communication detailed
– Serial library, data formats and setting up communication protocols
Due:
– Week 1 deliverable for theSensingexercise
Communicate
Nov 1
The Internet of things part I
Lab:
Communication exercise part I
Due:
– Full demo for theSensingexercise ready for a Playtesting session
Nov 8
– The Internet of things part II
– Final project brief introduced, with a focus on concept presentation
Lab:
Communication exercise part II
Due:
– Final deliverable for theSensingexercise
– Deliverable for theCommunicatingexercise
Reading:
Up to page 9 of Kranenberg's Internet of things
Mix it up
Nov 15
Lecture: The body as Interface TBC
Review: Building blocs for a successful project. Discussion on prototyping and digital fabrication.
Lab: Beyond the Arduino board
Due:
– Documentation of in class Communicating lab exerise (optional).
– Final project deliverables 1
Reading:
Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects
Nov 22
Due: Final project deliverables 2
Reading: TBC
Nov 29
Due: Final project deliverables 3
Final Crits
Dec 6
In class demo and final presentation.
Due: Final project deliverables 4
All online documentation must be up to date by Dec 10th.
....That's it!