Info
What: Intro to Physical Computing H79.2301.2
When: Mondays 12.30 - 3.00pm (Monday Class Dates)
Where: NYU Tisch Building, 4th floor, Room 406
Who: Benedetta Piantella
Contact
Best way to reach me is via email at: bp432@nyu.edu
To set up an appointment within office hours or outside, please email me.
Office Hours: By Appointment, Mondays 3.30 - 5.30pm and Tuesdays 2.30 - 4.30pm
Grading
Participation & Attendance: 40%
Production Assignments: 40%
Journal: 20%
Supplies
See http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Intro/Supplies
Useful Links
http://www.arduino.cc - Arduino website. Check out the Getting Started and the Reference pages
http://tigoe.net/pcomp/ - Tom Igoe's Physical Computing site
http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/ - Tom's Code, Circuits & Construction blog
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/sensors/ - ITP Sensor Workshop wiki from another class at ITP
http://itp.nyu.edu/mechanisms/ - Dustyn Roberts' class on mechanisms, very useful for when we do motors
http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/ - Website about movement and good explanation on how to recreate mechanisms
http://www.ladyada.net/learn/soldering/thm.html - Here's a few good tutorials on how to solder, including video (MM)
Cool Reference Books
Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers
Getting Started with Arduino
Make: Electronics
Getting Started in Electronics
Making Things Talk
Making Things Move
Practical Electronics For Inventors
Energy
There are no electrons; Electronics for earthlings
Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting
Class Blogs
Please press "Edit" at the bottom of this page, login and then enter the url to your blog below (if you are new to wiki formatting just follow the pattern of the examples below and substitute with your url and your name). Alternatively you can email me the link to your blog.
- Moe Shahrooz
- Myriam Melki
- Colin Narver
- Mary Fe
- Michael Milazzo
- David Rios
- Allison Burtch
- Sergio Majluf
- Patricia R. Zablah
- Yuliya Parshina
- Xinran Wang
- Yu-Ting Feng
- Tianyu WU
- Valerie Chen
- Vanessa Joho
- Gal Sasson
- Youjin Shin
Class Notes
Week 1 - Sept 10
Examples of Tangible Interface:
Marble Answering Machine
Makey Makey
Sticky light
Interesting Interaction:
ZeroN
Cool things to go to:
Ghosts in the Machine
Murder of Crows
Week 2 - Sept 17
Related to the readings:
Similar take on technology of the future by Corning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&feature=youtu.be
(Thanks Negar for the link!)
Future Tech in TV Show "Weeds": http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/17/weeds-finale-tech/#s:weeds-2
(Scroll the image slideshow at the bottom and see different views of a similar technology to this week readings.)
Sixth Sense Technology: http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
Interesting read on Interaction: http://books.google.com/books?id=DCIy2zxrCqcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Chapter 1 and 2 of Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction, by Paul Dourish
Related to the principles discussed in class:
Resistulator: http://www.zambetti.com/projects/resistulator
Online graphical resistor calculator: http://www.dannyg.com/examples/res2/resistor.htm
Related to the concepts discussed in class:
Week 3 - Sept 24
Week 4 - Oct 1
Week 5 - Oct 8
Midterm Groups (so far):
- Moe, Yuliya and Michael
- Gal, Valerie and Yu-Ting
- Vanessa, Colin, Sergio and Myriam
- Mary, Allison and David
- Xinran and Patricia
- Youjin and Tianyu
Some Projects I find interesting:
EyeWriter: http://www.eyewriter.org/
Playing the Building: http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/art_projects/playing_the_building/index.php
ITP Projects:
Rope & Pulley DJ: http://gizmodo.com/michael-chladil/
Air Harp: http://itp.nyu.edu/~ndy204/blog/?p=287
FeltResistor: http://thomas-gerhardt.com/itp/FeltResistor/
MudTub: http://tomgerhardt.com/mudtub/
Some online places for materials:
Adafruit Industries: http://www.adafruit.com/
SparkFun: http://www.sparkfun.com/
DigiKey: http://www.digikey.com/
Mouser: http://www.mouser.com/
Jameco: http://www.jameco.com/
All Electronics: http://www.allelectronics.com/
and many many more.
A fantastic comic book about electricity:
From ITP Alumn Jody Culkin:
http://boingboing.net/2011/09/11/comic-book-introduction-to-arduino.html
http://www.jodyculkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/arduino-comic-latest1.pdf
Week 6 - Oct 22
Week 7 - Oct 29
Office Hours:
CANCELED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY!
Week 8 - Nov 5
Office Hours:
3.30 - 4.00 : Patricia & Xinran
4.00 - 4.30 :
4:30 - 5.00 : Nadine & Caroline
5.00 - 5.30 : Sam, Wang and Wajma
5.30 - 6.00 : Youjin & Tianyu
Useful review of Servos: http://eds.dyndns.org/~ircjunk/tutorials/elex/hobbyservo/servo101.html
Online store for conductive and insulating fabrics: http://lessemf.com
Week 9 - Nov 12
Office Hours:
3.30 - 4.00 : caroline sinders
4.00 - 4.30 : Wajma Mohseni
4:30 - 5.00 :
5.00 - 5.30 : Patricia
5.30 - 6.00 :
Week 10 - Nov 19
Office Hours:
3.30 - 4.00 : Patricia and Xinran
4.00 - 4.30 : DD
4:30 - 5.00 : Talya
5.00 - 5.30 : The Cobras
5.30 - 6.00 : Wajma
Week 11 - Nov 26
Office Hours:
3.30 - 4.00 : Valerie
4.00 - 4.30 : Tianyu
4:30 - 5.00 : Youjin
5.00 - 5.30 : Xinran
5.30 - 6.00 : Yang
Final Projects (so far):
- Moe, Yuliya and Michael
- Gal
- Valerie - The Mystic Oracle
- Yu-Ting
- Vanessa, Colin, Sergio and Myriam
- Mary and David
- Allison
- Xinran and Patricia
- Youjin
- Tianyu
Week 12 - Dec 3
Office Hours - Monday Dec 3:
4.00 - 4.30 : Wajma
4.30 - 5.00 : Yang!
5.00 - 5.30 : Youjin
5.30 - 6.00 : Valerie
And by popular demand here are some more:
Office Hours - Tuesday Dec 4:
12.00 - 12.30: DD
12.30 - 1.00 : Negar+Azur+Talya
1.00 - 1.30 :
1.30 - 2.00 :
2.00 - 2.30 :Tianyu
2.30 - 3.00 :Patricia
3.00 - 3.30 :caroline sinders
NOTES on Soldering, courtesy of RadioShack:
http://t4dlab.com/Downloads/Summitkit.pdf
Week 13 - Dec 10
Class Presentations Part I
- Colin, Myriam, Sergio & Vanessa (Voodoo Bear)
- David & Mary Fe
- Allison
- Yu-Ting
- Tianyu
Week 14 - Dec 12
Class Presentations Part II
- Gal
- Moe, Yuliya and Michael
- Pat
- Xinran
- Valerie
- Youjin
