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Don Coleman Bluetooth is a short range (~100m) wireless technology for connecting devices. Bluetooth low energy peripherals such as lights, sensors, and wearable devices broadcast their presence and the services they provide Applications on phones, tablets, or laptops can discover and connect to these Bluetooth devices without any configuration. The goal of this class is for you to understand Bluetooth concepts, learn to create Bluetooth peripherals, and build Bluetooth applications. The class will introduce the low energy features of Bluetooth, explain the Bluetooth attribute protocol, and teach the design of Bluetooth services. You will learn to build Bluetooth peripherals using Arduino. You’ll also use Node.js to build peripherals and applications that can run on a Raspberry Pi or laptop. You will build iOS or Android applications to connect to these peripherals, using JavaScript and Apache Cordova.The course will be a mixture of lecture and in­class collaborative coding. There will be small with weeklyassignments building Bluetooth peripherals and applications. Students are encouraged to have their own hardware for the class but have the option to use devices from the equipment room.

Stephan von Muehlen / Ben Cohen We will introduce the delightful possibilities of simple machines and fundamental mechanical concepts–such as levers, gears, and linkages–through examples from the history of kinetic sculpture, interactive art, and manufacturing. Look to Alexander Calder’s Circus and Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest as examples. This class will teach the students the joy of […]

Course Description Is augmented reality technology about to enter the mainstream? AR platforms have finally become widely accessible to artists, designers, and technologists thanks to recent advances in mobile performance and a new collection of powerful computer vision techniques. As such, the medium offers rich possibilities for experimentation and a chance to rethink how we […]

Andrew Lazarow For centuries, great works of music, theater, and dance, have combined art andscience to make integrated performances that move audiences. Today, we are seeingexciting changes as artists experiment with video and real-time interactivity to drawaudiences even deeper into the performance, and enhance the shared experience ofthe moment. This class explores conceptual approaches to […]

Libraries like TensorFlow.js and ml5.js unlocked new opportunities for interactive machine learning projects in the browser. The goal of this class is to learn and understand common machine learning techniques and apply them to generate creative outputs in the browser. This class will start with running models in the browser using high-level APIs from ml5.js, […]

Surya Mattu Radio waves have been harnessed for communication for over a century. From simple morse code signals to high definition video, this medium has played a critical role in enabling how we, and our devices interact with each other. Thanks to increasingly accessible hardware platforms, the barrier of entry has been lowered for harnessing […]

Eric Rosenthal Digital cameras and printers are making photography more ubiquitous and more useful than ever. This course is a workshop that looks at changing the rules for capturing and printing digital imagery. By gaining a better understanding of the engineering fundamentals and limitations of digital photography, students can produce breathtaking images with all the […]

Modern farming is built for monocultures with its large scale machines dispersing synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides and the collateral destruction of biodiversity and seasonal harvesting. How can we design systems and hardware + software that address the individual needs of diverse ecosystems? How can we combine the ancient and analog practices of using biologicals […]

Chris Woebken / Richard The The Speculation as Process course is built around ongoing research on futuring methods at The Extrapolation Factory. Over the course of the class, we will develop imagination devices and futuring process followed by an iterative series of rapid investigations, incorporating design-fiction prototyping and re-contextualization of the ideas generated. The class […]

Benedetta Piantella / Robin Reid / Nancy Hechinger / Gabe Barcia­Colombo / Katherine Dillon / Kathleen Wilson / Andrew Lazarow This course is designed to help students define and execute their final thesis project in a setting that is both collegial and critical. It is structured as a series of critique and presentation sessions in […]

This class is a series of lectures and demonstrations focused on the technical criteria for design and fabrication of electronic circuits for ITP student projects. For example, when designing an analog audio circuit or an analog sensing circuit, a ground plane is needed to reduce electrical noise. When designing radio circuits, the physical geometry and […]

Rae Yuping Hsu Microbial ethics in an anticolonial space faring future is a hybrid theory and hands-on course that examines microbial informed ethics as a guide for our travels beyond earth. This class takes the biopolitical and the geopoetical as our frame of reference: \\\\\\The microbial\\\\\\ We are ancient bacteria, in the event of an […]

Listening is not something we do through hearing alone. Engaging with multiple perspectives, from Deaf studies and critiques of ableist hearing ideologies, to the possibilities and pitfalls presented through machine listening and imaginative sonic speculation, we will playfully deconstruct and question what it means to listen at all.

Monty Taylor This course builds upon ITP’s expertise of lighting LED’s to explore how we can make artisticchoices for both how to light an event, our own work, or even make lighting basedsculptures. Traditionally this work was limited to those with access to large DMX boards;however, we will look at how to use the DMX […]