Tuesday, Thursday 07:15PM - 10:15PM, Founder's Hall, Room 304
UDIST-300-13 01/12/2010-04/29/2010
From The Catalog:
This class will create chain reactions populated with objects that interact with one another by transmitting gestures and behaviors. The objects will be designed and implemented as individual projects reflecting the disciplines of each student's practice. Kinetic sculpture, video projections, sound generating algorithms, or any media that has interactive sensibilities will be arranged so that when activated a domino effect will ensue. The shadow of a robotic hand could trigger a light sensor in a sound installation that sends data to a flash animation and causes a wave of panic through a herd of mechanical lemmings. The catalytic agents could range from the primordial to the digital. Water, fire, and air could be dispensed by electromechanical devices and interleaved with data packets and algorithms to induce a society of reactive agents. The connections will be given at the onset of the course and each student will negotiate the subtleties of their chosen connections with their peers. This platform will also be a venue to introduce practical skills in making kinetic artworks that incorporate some elements of machining, metal work, microcontroler programming and electronics. Emphasis will be placed on making reliable working systems that have gestural interest and interactive elements.
EXHIBITION: SATURDAY, MAY 1st
HANDOUTS:
01-12 TUE:
Attendance, wiki intro, policies
Some Context and inspiration...
Chain Reaction: 1 golfball-inch
⁃ A joule is a watt-second
⁃ A joule is also a force of one newton through one meter of distance.
⁃ A newton is the force exerted by gravity on a 102 gram object at the earth's surface.
⁃ A golf ball weighs 46 grams
⁃ A yard = 36 inches = 0.9144 meters
⁃ So the golf ball-inch deal is (46/102)*(0.9144/36)=0.0116 joules
⁃ A bright, fully charged, disposable camera flash is about 10 joules or about 1000 gb-i per flash
⁃ energy in flash capacitor = 1/2 CV^2 = 0.5 * 200uF * 330V * 330V = 10 watt-seconds (or joules)
⁃ An ardino lighting up an LED takes about 20milliwatts 0.020 watts (2 volts * 10 milliamps)
⁃ that LED on for a half second uses 0.010 watt-seconds (0.5 * 0.020), very like the golf ball-inch
Arthur Ganson's MIT ChainReaction
A little about Rube_Goldberg
Purdue competition
Chain Reaction #1: Students work in teams using the connective standard of the golfball/inch
01-14 THUR
Homework Due: Arduino research post on wiki
North: Interactive systems, Arduino, and processing
Demo: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/LEDColorMixerWith3Potentiometers
Artist Presentation guidelines
01-19 TUE
Homework Due: read Arduino sensor tutorials
Don: Sensors amplifiers and control elements
01-21 THUR
Chain Reaction #2: w/ Arduino input-delay-output
Reminder: Artist Presentations due next Thursday
01-26 TUE
North: Power amplification, transmission and transmutation
Here is a link to the Power Point Presentation I mentioned in class
01-28 THUR
Homework Due: Post all presentation materials to your wiki page before class
Artist presentations
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Start Shopping for your micro controller.
Explore the total of this great page at the arduino.cc site.
If you can afford a kit to jump into using the Arduino, that would be fantastic. If you want a cheap and breadboard mounting one, or a cheap and conforming one that you assemble yourself (with our help) then you can become a soldering pro while saving some $. If you think you are going to have a lot to do or you want to add some weight to your toolbox, ther's the mega. And don't forget the washable ones.
We will consolidate orders this tuesday, so bring cash or a checkbook for what you plan to spend or print out/email us your receipt so we can audit everyones purchases to make sure we are all getting what we need.
02-02 TUE
MOVIE NIGHT (Some final inspirations for your project proposals)
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/8/PythagoraSwitch-2-553678.html
02-04 THUR
Propose a connective model for the final chain reaction.
You will be using your wiki page as a reference to explain to your classmates what you think could be a method or strategy for interconnecting the works.
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You should have a nascent inkling of a project proposal started on your wiki page.
This can be sketches, links or resources which are related as well as questions and assumptions you are starting with.
02-09 TUE
Don: H-Bridge,
Read H Bridge Diagram
See sketch for H Bridge Chip
Based on Physical Computing sketches DC Motor Control and Analog In
02-11 THUR
Have decided on your arduino purchase
Bring North $65 if you want the default kit
North: arduino's serial potentials:MAX, RFID, Sonar and networks
02-16 TUE
Homework Due: read variables, logic
LAB: Arduino: encoding your logic
02-18 THUR
Barney and Pneumatics
02-23 TUE
Final Project Presentations. Please follow Final Project Proposal Guidelines.
1. 7:20
2. 7:35
3. 7:50
4. 8:05
5. 8:20
- 8:35 break
6. 9:00
7. 9:15
8. 9:30
9. 9:45
02-25 THUR
More Final Project Proposals
10. 7:20
11. 7:35
12. 7:50
13. 8:05
14. 8:20
-- 8:35 break
15. 9:00
16. 9:15
17. 9:30
18. 9:45
03-02 TUE:
LAB 14
Don: Soldering and Metering Demos
North: Metal and Wood Shop Orientations: Shop Safety Handout | Machining Handout
03-04 THUR:
LAB 13
Don: Soldering and Metering Demos
North: Metal and Wood Shop Orientations: Shop Safety Handout | Machining Handout
03-09 TUE:
LAB 12
03-11 THUR:
LAB 11 - Prototypes Due
bring everything you plan to work with to class for show and tell
03-16 TUE: SPRING BREAK
03-18 THUR: SPRING BREAK
03-23 TUE:
LAB 10
03-25 THUR:
LAB 9
03-30 TUE:
LAB 8
04-01 THUR:
LAB 7
04-06 TUE:
LAB 6
04-08 THUR:
LAB 5
04-13 TUE:
LAB 4
04-15 THUR:
LAB 3
04-20 TUE:
LAB 2
04-22 THUR:
LAB 1
04-27 TUE:
LAB 0
04-29 THUR:
FINAL CRIT
EXHIBITION: SATURDAY, MAY 1st
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