DIG3xxxC Sensor and Electronics-Based Art

  1. weeks 1-6
  2. weeks 7-12
  3. weeks 13-16

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WEEK 7

topics and in-class work

10/5__Monday:
Revisting basic electronics concepts lecture
Catch up day
Work on Group Projects

10/7__Wednesday:
Motors and Tones in Arduino
Do the following labs
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/Servo
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/ToneOutput
Work on Group Projects

WEEK 8

topics and in-class work

10/12__Monday:
Serial Communication
A few more programming concepts
Critique of Allyse, Jason, Lauren, and Sarah's Group project
DOET Activity based on Chapter 5 and/or 6
10/14__Wednesday:
Critique of Group Project
Self Evaluation
Serial Communication Lab
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/SerialOut
More practice with serial communication
Dimmer
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Dimmer
Physical Pixel
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/PhysicalPixel
Color Mixer
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/VirtualColorMixer


WEEK 9

topics and in-class work

10/19__Monday:
List of Arduino skills and accompanying tutorials that you should be familiar with
DOET Activity Chapter 7
Discuss Final Project guidelines
10/21__Wednesday:

Memsic 2515 Accelerometer
Serial Call Response
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/SerialCallResponse
Serial Input
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/SwitchCase2
In the next couple of weeks you should do all of these tutorials except for the LCD ones
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
A Processing moment
www.processing.org

WEEK 10

topics and in-class work

10/26__Monday:
Serial Communication p. 2
DOET Activity
10/28__Wednesday:
Serial Communication Lab
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/SerialDuplex



WEEK 11

topics and in-class work

11/2__Monday:
Presentation of FInal Project proposal
Intro to Fritzing
http://fritzing.org/
DOET activity if time

11/4__Wednesday:
Fieldtrip to Fab Lab for Laser Cutter Demo
Look at artists
Please make sure you have done the two labs in on servos in Arduino Learning
Hacking a Futaba servo
http://www.seattlerobotics.org/Encoder/200009/S3003C.html
More on this
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-modify-a-servo-motor-for-continuous-rotatio/
Get with a partner and do the LCD serial lab
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/SparkFunSerLCD
schematic
Small group discussion of Chapter 6 DOET

WEEK 12

topics and in-class work

11/9__Monday:
FInish LCD exercise from last week
Two versions of a digital thermometer using a thermistor
People who have not had programming class do the following
Combine last weeks LCD serial tutorial with thermistor tutorial to create a digital thermometer
People who have had programming class
COmbine serial comm tutorial which changes color of square in Processing using thermistor
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/ComponentLib/Thermistor
Group discussion of questions/investigations of DOET Chapter 6
Sensor Reports Presentations
Processing Moment


11/11__Wednesday:
Transistors and High Current Loads Lab
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Tutorials/HighCurrentLoads
Another processing moment
Chapter 7 DOET
matrices?
work on final projects, should have stuff and be prototyping