Setting up a blog
Periodically you will be asked to blog about your experience and progress in this course, and to do that, you will need your very own blog somewhere. You could set up an account with one of the popular...
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This post was split off from the main Final Projects page so that you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to. Sometimes ideas for projects comes easily, but sometimes (especially for beginners),...
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A closer look at Arduino
The Arduino platform has been incredibly influential over the past 5 years and very quickly has become an indespensible tool for interaction designers, artists and hobbyists all over the world....
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The Hacker and the Artist
Art is officially defined as the products of human creativity. In practice, however, it is purposely left undefined by many actual artists. Therefore, its not an easy topic to wrap your head around,...
View ArticleGetting an Arduino kit + Wed class info
If you do not already have an Arduino Starter Kit (required for this class), Sparkfun just got some more in. You should get one as soon as possible, because the number in stock today was half what I...
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Arduino Workshop
Today we will use the Arduino to create a simple musical instrument using a special type of potentiometer called a SoftPot for input and a common speaker (8 ohms impedance) for output. Step 1)...
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Helicopter Game Workshop
Earlier this semester you were introduced to the world of programming through Processing, and, more recently, to the world of physical computing through Arduino. This week we’ll be connecting the two...
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Halfway done, time for a change of pace!
We are now officially halfway through the semester, and I wanted to take the opportunity to review how much has been accomplished already in this semester, and give a taste of what is to come. We...
View ArticlePreparing your Bill of Materials
When we all come back from Spring Break, the rest of the class will be devoted to working on your final projects. If you need to buy any parts or materials for your project (and you don’t mind UNK...
View ArticleExhibition info + final project grading
Here is the digital source file for the information packet I handed out recently: Download the information packet (.docx)
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