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Parts & Tools Guide<\/a> – What’s in your kit, and what other parts and tools will you use frequently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re looking to buy components in NYC, here are your options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n NYU Google App suite \u2013 you\u2019ll need to know these for most of NYU interaction. You have access to the whole suite through your NYU account<\/a>. Search for NYU Drive. We\u2019ll use mail, calendar, docs, sheets, drive, and slides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zoom \u2013 Crucial during 2020, perhaps still useful in 2021 and beyond? Check out Zoom tutorials and resources by NYU<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This course involves a lot of circuit and system drawings. You can use any drawing tool that you like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This section contains resources that are useful for physical computing in general, like reading material, suppliers, links to other useful sites, recommended tools and parts to get started, and more. Parts & Tools Guide – What’s in your kit, and what other parts and tools will you use frequently. In-Person Help Local Retailers If you’re … Continue reading “Resources”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13818,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span>In-Person Help <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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![An SVG file of electronic schematic symbols<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nSensor reports<\/a> from ITP Tangible Interaction class<\/li>\n\n\n\nMicrocontroller Pin Functions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nBreadboard Layouts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Mechanics References<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\nDustyn Roberts\u2019\u00a0Mechanisms & Things That Move<\/a>\u00a0site<\/li>\n\n\n\nRob Ives, formerly Flying Pig<\/a>, a great site for simple mechanisms<\/li>\n\n\n\nNotes from Kinetic Sculpture Club<\/a> 2021-2022, run by resident researcher Lu Lyu. Includes notes on basic mechanical movements, and on a couple of useful stepper motor drivers, like the A4988 stepper driver<\/a> or the TMC2209 stepper driver<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\nMekanizmalar.com<\/a>\u00a0\/ Youtube Channel<\/a> \u2013 a great series of animations illustrating different mechanisms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Software Tools<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nNYU Google App suite \u2013 you\u2019ll need to know these for most of NYU interaction. You have access to the whole suite through your NYU account<\/a>. Search for NYU Drive. We\u2019ll use mail, calendar, docs, sheets, drive, and slides.<\/p>\n\n\n\nZoom \u2013 Crucial during 2020, perhaps still useful in 2021 and beyond? Check out Zoom tutorials and resources by NYU<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Code Tools<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\nArduino<\/a>:<\/strong> As of Spring 2023, we use version 2.0.3 or later. Download is free. <\/li>\n\n\n\nGitHub<\/a><\/strong>: gitHub is a code repository that we use in many classes at ITP. The code samples for this class are all in this gitHub repository<\/a>, Accounts are free, and the GitHub Desktop<\/a> app is free as well.<\/li>\n\n\n\nglitch.com<\/strong><\/a> is a code sharing site that\u2019s specific to web apps.It works well with p5.js and node.js sketches and applications p5.js sketches on Glitch can talk to Arduino using the p5.serialport library<\/a> and p5.serialcontrol app<\/a>. Accounts are free.<\/li>\n\n\n\nVisual Studio Code<\/strong> <\/a>as is a good programming editor outside of the Arduino IDE. It’s good for for HTML, JavaScript (including p5.js projects), node.js, and sometimes Arduino as well. You may not need it, but if you\u2019re looking for a general purpose programming editor check it out. Downloads are free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Drawing Tools<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nThis course involves a lot of circuit and system drawings. You can use any drawing tool that you like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\nThe circuit diagrams on this site are made in Fritzing<\/a>, a circuit and schematic drawing program designed for electronics beginners. Downloads are about $9.oo USD. Alternately you can download the source and compile it yourself for free. You can export SVGs from it and work in any other drawing program as well.<\/li>\n\n\n\nInkscape<\/a> is a free and open source vector drawing tool. 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