Dxarts470 su12 notes

• 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

• Audio Sensing
  • Sound level
  • Speech Detection/Recognition

• Visual Sensing
  • Cheap webcams
    • lenses
  • Image-based
    • color-tracking
    • blob-tracking
    • background subtraction
    • motion tracking
  • OpenCV
  • Face OSC http://hacklab.recyclism.com/workshops/faceosc/
  • OSCeleton https://github.com/Sensebloom/OSCeleton
  • TSPS http://opentsps.com/

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

• Electronics Control
  • 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

• Boolean Logic
  • AND and OR with goofy flashlights.

Schedule

Week 1 - Electronics

• Day 1 - Arduino In/Out, Digital Electronics
• Day 2 - Electronics Basics, Ohm's law
  • Ohm's Law worksheet
  • relay
• Day 3 - 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 - Arduino
• Project 1

Week 2 - PD/Processing/Arduino

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
• Project 2

Projects

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

art references

• Lozano-Hemmer 'Pulse Room' http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/pulse_room.php