CS 207 Building Interactive Gadgets
Outline
Topics covered will include but not be limited to:- Hacker and Maker Culture
- Democratization of innovation
- Citizen engineers
- Social change, eg TV-B-Gone
- Democratization of Innovation
- Makerbot and Arduino
- 3d printing and desktop publishing
- Commoditization of computing
- Open source hardware
- "Sharing is caring" vs patents; karma vs coin
- Gadgets in the Everyday
- Remote controls
- Key Fobs
- Garage door openers
- Pedometers
- GPS
- Introduction to Electronics
- Resistors, circuits, and basic laws
- LEDs, batteries and magnets: the throwie
- Introduction to Programming
- Make the computer do the work
- Languages, for example MIDI, DMX, OSC, Max/MSP Processing, Isadora, HTML, PHP
- Inputs and outputs
- Doing it over again and Asking questions (Loops and Conditionals)
- Interacting with the Real World
- QR codes
- Projection mapping
- Sensors, eg accelerometers
- Robotics
- Making things move
- Making things fly