Sensors Probes and Detectors I 2017
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Sensors, Detectors and Probes 1. September-October 2017
Sensors,probes and detectors is a gentle introductory class to electronics. In the context of art, sensors are important because they form a bridge between the natural world and the digital.From a design perspective, they are vital to creating interactive objects.
Week 1
Introduction to Electronics.
learning to recognize simple electronic components
Switches
Resistors
Capacitors
Diodes
Wires
OHMS's LAW
Understand Voltage, Current and Resistance.
Mechanical Metaphors for Voltage/Current/Resistance and Flow.
Understanding Computation
- The difference between Analog and Digital. - Relationship between Analog, Digital and Sensors
Computers & Art
Readings: Exhibition catalog/Cybernetics
Assignment #1: Build your own switch(SENSOR 1)
Assignment #2: Build your own computer
Learning to use a breadboard.
Week 2
-What is a microcontroller?
-Introduction to the Arduino IDE.
- DATA TYPES
int,float,char,string
- INPUT/OUTPUT
Analog Input Digital Output
- CONTROL STRUCTURES
For Statement
"IF...THEN....ELSE"
ARRAYS
Readings: "What is it like to be a bat"- Thomas Nagel
Readings: Alvin Lucier - Program Notes for Vespers
-SENSOR #2: The Ultrasonic Sensor
-OUTPUT #2: The Servo
Learn to use the Library Reference
Assignment #1: Research on Bats, Sensing and Frequencies
Assignment #2: Build a Bat communication device.
Week 3
- Introduction to Soldering
- Reading a Schematic
-Solder your own Arduino
+some more electronics
- Transistors ***Transistors and servos****
- Diodes Again***Diodes and D.C motors***
-More DATA TYPES
- analogRead() again
Assignment #1: What is sampling? What is the Sample Rate of Arduino?
Assignment #2: Make a list of ATMEGA chips
Resistors in Series
Resistors in Parallel
Capacitors in Series
Capacitors in Parallel
Voltage Divider
COMMUNICATION
Serial communication with Processing
DATA types with Serial
Char to Int
Week 4
Final Project
Project 1
Build a Swarm of Robots, each with a specific behaviour. Each of these behaviours will be guided/controlled by a simple sensor. Design a collective of robots that exhibit complex behaviour based on these simple reactions.
For Eg: 1 of the robots could be attracted to light/sound or repelled by it.
Project 2
Design a performance in collaboration with a performer/dancer using echolocation.
Readings
Reading 1: Exhibition catalog/Cybernetics
Reading 2: "What is it like to be a bat"- Thomas Nagel
Reading 3: Alvin Lucier - Program Notes for Vespers
Reading 4: From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm
Reading 5: Swarm Behaviour
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