David Rios

This course combines two powerful areas of technology that will enable you to leap
from being just a user of technology to becoming a creator with it: Physical Computing
and Programming. The course begins with Physical Computing, which allows you to
break free from both the limitations of mouse, keyboard & monitor interfaces and
stationary locations at home or the office. We begin by exploring the expressive
capabilities of the human body and how we experience our physical environment. The
platform for the class is a microcontroller (Arduino brand), a very small inexpensive
single-chip computer that can be embedded anywhere and sense and make things
happen in the physical world. The core technical concepts include digital, analog and
serial input and output.