Class Times
Wednesday, 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Wednesday 3:20 PM – 5:50 PM
Contact:
tom.igoe@nyu.edu
Tom’s Calendar click here for office hours and to know my general schedule for the week.
Class Date Exceptions
I will be here for all classes, though I will be out of town some weekends, which will mean I have to move some office hours around. My calendar page will always have the most up-to-date office hours.
Useful links
- Tom’s phys comp blog
- Tom’s general blog
- Tom’s gitHub repository
- Arduino site
- Dustyn Roberts’ Mechanisms & Things That Move site
- Rob Ives, formerly Flying Pig, a great site for simple mechanisms
A Few Good Reads
These are not on the main reading list, but I think they’re excellent reads if you’re thinking about physical interface design.
- Timo Arnall on the fallacy of invisible interfaces
- Don Norman on the Paradox of Wearable Technologies, specifically heads-up displays like Google Glass.
- Anil Dash on why There Is No “Technology Industry”
- Shelly Zalis on Designing Prosthetics That Give Female Veterans Confidence
- Bret Victor on Doug Engelbart and why Engelbart matters. A lovely tribute.
- Ben Rubin’s redesign of the sounds in the NYC subway, circa 1998. In these, Ben looked ad the sounds that are used to cue users of the subway and noted their limitations, then redesigned them to make them more understandable and useful. Video 1 and video 2 show the whole interaction. Thanks to Alden Jones for finding them again.
Class Notes
Intro class slides 5 Sept 2017
Serial Binary example (11/2/16)- how to send a two-byte sensor reading from Arduino, and how to interpet it in P5.js. Uses a call-and-response approach to ensure that P5 has only one two-byte reading at a time to read.
Class List
Class Blogs
Email me with direct links to your documentation for this class. Note: please set up tags, categories, or whatever so the link goes directly to the documentation specifically for this class, and not every class, or your personal blog, etc.
Wednesday Morning Section
- Vidia Anindhita
- Martin Calvino
- Stephanie Chambers
- Sam Chasan
- Erin Cooney
- Terrick Gutierrez
- Sam Hains
- William Hallett
- Haiyi Huang
- Simon Jensen
- Tong Li
- Camilla Padgitt-Coles
- Lauren Race
- Jim Schmitz
- Nick Wallace
- Tong Wu
Wednesday Afternoon section