Latest revision as of 08:30, 26 June 2012

Schedule

Week 1

Day 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 - Concepts of Control

Day 6 - Software

Day 7 - Hardware

Day 8 - Outsourced/Crowdsourced

• Project 2

Day 9 - Visual Sensing

Day 10 -

Day 11 -

Day 12 -

Day 13 -

Day 14 -

Day 15 -

Day 16 -

Day 17 -

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.

Artists/Artworks

• 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/
• Natalie Jeremijenko 'Suicide Box' - http://bureauit.org/sbox/, http://www.transmediale.de/content/suicide-box
• Harwood, Wright, Yokojiko 'Tantalum Memorial' - http://mediashed.org/TantalumMemorial, http://www.transmediale.de/en/node/192/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LlN20Aj--0,
• Jean Tinguely 'Homage to New York' - http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/04/06/arts/design/100000000761945/tinguely.html
  • no sensing no control
• Meghan Trainor 'Erehwon' - http://meggatron.tumblr.com/
• Arthur Elsenar 'Face Shift' - https://vimeo.com/28516595
• Stelarc 'Ping Body' - http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/history/timeline/pingbody.html
• Wafaa Bilal 'Domestic Tension' - http://wafaabilal.com/domestic-tension/
• Eddo Stern 'Dark Game' - http://www.eddostern.com/darkgame/index.html
• Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas 'Façade' - http://www.interactivestory.net/
• Harold Cohen 'AARON' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHQx9BrHQc
• Caleb Larson 'A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter' - http://www.caleblarsen.com/projects/a-tool-to-deceive-and-slaughter/
• Survival Research Labs -
• Niklas Roy 'Electronic Instant Camera' - http://www.niklasroy.com/project/103/electronic_instant_camera
• Joan Leandre 'retroYou (RC)' 1999-2001, 'retroYou nostal(G)' 2002-2003, 'In The Name of the Kernel' 2006-ongoing. http://retroyou.org/ - https://vimeo.com/14834830, http://rhizome.org/editorial/2008/may/21/a-map-to-reach-the-impossible-interview-with-joan-/
• Cerith Wyn Evans - chandelier works - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVn14J96ReA, http://whitecube.com/artists/cerith_wyn_evans/

Topics

Boolean Logic

• AND and OR with goofy flashlights.

Electronics Skills

• soldering
• multimeter
  • current
  • voltage
  • resistance
  • identify a transistor/LED
• bench supply
• oscilloscope
• reading a circuit diagram. writing one.
• reading a resistor
• reading a datasheet (max current, voltage, typical drop, typical application, etc.)
• breadboard, prototype, PCB

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)
• lenses
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_mount
  • "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

State Machines

• Latches/Memory
• digital logic
• FPGAs - http://blip.tv/bios/making-demos-with-fpgas-828200
• A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (plural: automata), or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model used to design computer programs and digital logic circuits. It is conceived as an abstract machine that can be in one of a finite number of states. The machine is in only one state at a time; the state it is in at any given time is called the current state. It can change from one state to another when initiated by a triggering event or condition, this is called a transition. A particular FSM is defined by a list of the possible transition states from each current state, and the triggering condition for each transition.
• implement a state machine in digital logic

Control Components

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

Transistors

• linear/non-linear response
• saturation curves
• current control
• opto
• triacs
• semi-conductor revolution

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