Revision as of 22:31, 16 June 2012

Schedule

Week 1

Day 1 - Week 1 - Light Blink

Day 2 - Electricity, Current, Ohm's Law

• Ohm's Law worksheet
• relay

Day 3 - Boolean Logic

• • Truth Tables
  • Boolean Algebra
  • Karnaugh Diagrams
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map
      • http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mastascu/elessonshtml/Logic/Logic3.html

Day 4 - Soldering

• Project 1

Day 5 - Week 2 - Software Control

Day 6 -

Day 7 -

Day 8 -

• Project 2

Day 9 - Week 3 - Visual Sensing

Day 10 -

Day 11 -

Day 12 -

Day 13 - Week 4 -

Day 14 -

Day 15 -

Day 16 -

Day 17 - Week 5

Day 18 -

Day 19 -

Projects

• Boolean Logic. (elementary computer)
• telematic/telepresence system - PING body, teleactor
• Event Driven Behavior
• cognitive feed-back loop, Cognitive feedback system. Control systems.

art works

• Lozano-Hemmer 'Pulse Room' - http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/pulse_room.php
• James Coupe 'Today, Too', '(re)Collector' - OpenCV, face profiling, image matching
• Marie Sester 'Access' - blob detection, tracking
• Sabrina Raaf 'Grower' - http://raaf.org/projects.php?pcat=2&proj=4
• Keith Tyson 'Artmachine' - http://www.keithtyson.com/#/projects/artmachine/examples/
• Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas 'Façade' - http://www.interactivestory.net/

Topics

Boolean Logic

• AND and OR with goofy flashlights.

Electronics Skills

• soldering

Arduino/PD

• arduino to PD http://hacklab.recyclism.com/
• serial data to pd http://hacklab.recyclism.com/blog/arduino-to-pd-serial/

Electronics Sensing

• Force
• Range
• Motion
• Temperature
• Potentiometer
• Gravity
• GPS, etc.
• Optical Sensors
  • beam-break
  • tilt
  • photo tx/rx pairs
  • optoisolators
  • IR remotes

Audio Sensing

• Sound level
• Speech Recognition

Visual Sensing

• Cheap webcams
  • aveo tech cameras (<$5), 640x480 30fps. (http://www.aveotek.com/av316.htm)
• "fixed board camera". 12mm (S-Mount) lens. M12 x 0.5mm threading.
  • 2.1mm (160˚ FOV), 2.8mm (120˚ FOV) - 16mm (21˚) wideangle - telephoto
  • 3.6mm (92˚ FOV)
• iSights
• Methods
  • color-tracking
  • blob-tracking
  • background subtraction
  • motion tracking
• OpenCV
  • face detection
  • recognition
  • profiling (Coupe's projects)
• Packages
  • Face OSC http://hacklab.recyclism.com/workshops/faceosc/
  • OSCeleton https://github.com/Sensebloom/OSCeleton
  • TSPS http://opentsps.com/

Systems, Control

• Theories
  • Weiner / Cybernetics / Feedback
  • General System Theory / Systems Art / Burnham / Bertalanffy etc.
• Practical Control Systems
  • Thermostat
  • Cruise Control

Control Components

• relay
• SSR
• transistor
• servo
• hbridge
• motor driver

Video

• video playback, scrubbing
• live video
• record/playback loops
• telematic video, streaming, displaced in space
• telepresence

Method

• bricolage
  • Turkle + Papert - http://www.papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html
  • excerpt from 'The Savage Mind' Claude Lev-Strauss - http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/bib/info/levstcld066savamind.html

Arduino

• http://arduino.cc/hu/Tutorial/HomePage