| SANTIAGO ECHEVERRY ART430 | Physical Computing | SPRING 2012 | PRE-REQ: ART210, ART310 and ART311 Section C | M - W | 10:00AM - 11:50AM | CAS 126 secheverry at ut.edu | CAS Annex 112 | 813 - 813 257 3769 | Office hours by appointment only |
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| Week | Description | Assignments | |||
| 1 - INTRO |
Basic electronic
components and equipment. Principles of electricity, vocabulary, safety measures. Kip Kay Solder tutorial |
Setup a basic breadboard and light a few LEDs with a battery pack, solder the cables. arduino.cc numato.com thebox.myzen.co.uk/Workshop/Introduction.html |
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| 2 - OUT |
What is Physical
Computing? Intro to Arduino and first program . Analog vs. Digital. What is a Microcontroller? The Arduino environment EX: LED Cube / LED Cube 3x3 |
Use LEDs to create
a 2D or 3D work of art. Use Arduino to control the LEDs • ITP Physical Computing |
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| 3 - OUT |
Sound out Sound output from
Arduino Transistors |
Create an experimental Audio project | |||
| 4 - OUT |
Analog output Getting a servo to work
with Arduino's analog
out |
Use servos to make a simple animatronic character or other sculpture | |||
| 5 - OUT |
High current loads and
motors Use an HBridge and Arduino to control a
motor EX: Nils Völker |
Use a motor to make
a simple "art car" controlling DC Motors Use transistors to
control a solenoid stepper motor • ITP HBridge / Reference / |
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| 6 - OUT |
Midterm Workshop | Combine
the Arduino, LEDs,
servos and other simple electronics to make an electronic art project |
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| 7 - OUT |
MIDTERM | ||||
| 8 - IN |
Theories of interactivity: tracking
changes with variables. TRANSDUCTION. Analog Input and Output
Sensors Pranav Mistry |
Create a mock-up
control interface
using potentiometers
and foamcore or wood or legos |
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| 9 - IN |
Input and Output:
Serial Communication
with Flash and AS3.
Serial output from
Arduino sparkfun.com // inventables.com |
Control a Movie Clip in Flash with your custom made interface - it must contain AT LEAST 2 variable generators | |||
| 10 - IN |
Serial Communication
with Processing TinkerProxy |
Make a simple "etch
a sketch" style
drawing program in
Processing that is
controlled with a
custom physical interface using various sensors |
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| 11 - IN |
Camera computing intro using Processing. Video tracking, video input. | Experiment with the video tracking possibilities and create a personal video tracking project | |||
| 12 - WORKSHOP |
FINAL PROJECT WORKSHOP STARTS | Final project proposals
and brain storming Final: create an
interactive, electronic or computer based work of art |
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| 13 - WORKSHOP |
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| 14 - WORKSHOP |
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| 15 - WORKSHOP |
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| 16 - FINALS |
FINAL PROJECTS - EVERYONE MUST BE PRESENT WEDNESDAY MAY 2ND | 11AM - 1PM | exams |
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