Class 15 – Loops, Functions and Interactions
Class 16 – Project Production

Additional Resources

• • Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 4 – Variables
  • Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 5 – Response
  • Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 8 – Motion
  • Learning Processing: Chapter 3 – Interaction
  • Learning Processing: Chapter 4 – Variables
  • Learning Processing: Chapter 5 – Conditionals
  • Learning Processing: Chapter 6 – Loops
  • Physical Computing’s Greatest Hits (and misses) by Tom Igoe
  • A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design by Bret Victor
  • Responses: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design by Bret Victor
  • Field Guide to Human Centered Design, IDEO (pages 9 to 25)

 

Class 13 –  MIDTERM PRESENTATIONS
Class 14 –  Intro to Processing

Additional Resources

• • Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 1 – Hello
  • Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 2 – Starting to Code
  • Getting Started with Processing: Chapter 3 – Draw
  • The art of computer designing, by Osamu Sato

 

 

 

Class 11 – Time and State
Class 12 – Debugging

Additional Resources

 

• ART + Science NOW, Stephen Wilson (Algorithm chapter)
• Paul Ford: What is code?
• Programming Terms and Programming Environments

Class 7 – Actuators

Additional Resources

• • Making Things Move by Dustyn Roberts, Chapter 6
  • Arduino Reference: Servo library


  • Make: Arduino’s Servo Library: Angles, Microseconds, and “Optional” Parameters
  • Nobumichi Tosa Interview: making nonsense machines
  • ART + Science NOW, Stephen Wilson (Kinetics chapter)
  • Karakuri by Keisuke Saka. Chapter 2: How Karakuri Works
  • Kazuyuki Motoyama – Paper Mechanisms
  • Rob Ives – Mechanism animations
  • Papier Machine
  • Mechanical Toys
  • Cabaret Mechanical Theater

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Class 5 – Iterations, Conditionals and Variables
Class 6 – Sensors

Additional Resources

• • Programming Terms and Programming Environments
  • https://makeabilitylab.github.io/physcomp/arduino/#lesson-1-using-buttons
  • If-then-else on Arduino Programming Electronics Academy
  • Arduino Programming Course Starting Electronics
  • Tutorials: Variables and Conditionals and Duration of Button Press

Videos:

• • Video: Escape Room Puzzle: LED Button Logic, BaldGuyDIY
  • Video: How to Create an “Analog” Arduino Escape Room Puzzle, Playful Technology Tech
  • Making Use Of The Arduino Serial Plotter
  • Aaron Sherwood: micro and micro double helix, these pages have videos too

Class 3 – Intro to Microcontrollers
Class 4 – Digital & Analog Inputs & Outputs

Additional Resources

• Download Arduino IDE arduino.cc

For the next four, use your NYU id and password:

• • Microcontrollers: The Basics
  • Digital Input & Output
  • Analog Input
  • Analog Output

• Getting Started with Arduino
  • Chapter 1 – Introduction
  • Chapter 2 – The Arduino Way
  • Chapter 3 – The Arduino Platform
  • Chapter 4 – Really Getting Started with Arduino
  • Chapter 5 – Advanced Input and Output
• Learn Electronics with Arduino : an illustrated beginner’s guide to physical computing

Introduction, Electricity, and Electronics

Class 1 – Introduction & Interaction
Class 2 – Electricity & Electronics

Mandatory Readings

Research Readings:

• The Art of Interactive Design, Crawford (pages 1-5)
• Language of New Media, Lev Manovich (pages 27 – 48)
• Making Interactive Art: Set the Stage, Then Shut Up and Listen by Tom Igoe

Additional Resources

• Video: Zach Lieberman: Interactive Art
• Electricity: The Basics (use your nyu id and password)
• Understanding the Breadboard
• Getting Started in Electronics (pages 6 – 21)