Dxarts470 su12 notes

Schedule

Week 1

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

Day 5 -

Week 2 - PD/Processing/Arduino

Day 8 -

• Project 2

Day 9 -

Week 3 - Advanced Sensing

Day 13 -

Week 4

Day 17 -

Week 5 / Final

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
• James Coupe 'Today, Too', '(re)Collector' - OpenCV, face profiling, image matching
• Marie Sester 'Access' - blob detection, tracking

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