{"id":5563,"date":"2024-11-26T21:48:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T21:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:41:40","slug":"diy-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/diy-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Energy-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Energy-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Energy-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Energy-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Energy-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Energy.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Energy is in everything, from the most ephemeral thought, to the rise and fall of civilizations and the evolution of the universe. Energy is the \u201cuniversal currency\u201d (Vaclav Smil) but also \u201ca very subtle concept\u2026 very, very difficult to get right\u201d (physicist Richard Feynman). It is precisely this combination of significance and subtlety that motivates the Energy class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding energy is useful, important, and fun. This class will help you see energy quantitatively and intuitively, and use that knowledge to make art, get your projects working better, and interpret the world around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How? Building on skills introduced in Creative Computing, we will generate and measure electricity hands-on in order to see and feel energy in its various forms. We will turn kinetic and solar energy into electrical energy, store that in batteries and capacitors, and use it to power projects. We will develop knowledge useful in a variety of areas, from citizen-science to off-grid installations, and address topics such as climate change and infrastructure access through the lens of energy. Students will build a final project using skills learned in the class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy is in everything, from the most ephemeral thought, to the rise and fall of civilizations and the evolution of the universe. Energy is the \u201cuniversal currency\u201d (Vaclav Smil) but also \u201ca very subtle concept\u2026 very, very difficult to get right\u201d (physicist Richard Feynman). It is precisely this combination of significance and subtlety that motivates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}