Week 1, January 21
Course Introduction
Projects viewed:
Processing: Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404; Pinch by Josh Nimoy; Radiohead, "House of Cards"; Processing code for House of Cards
Physical Computing: Antenna Design; Zone and Jukebots by Robot Lab; Soundstair by Christopher Janney
Due next week:
Download and install processing
CONCEPT - "A Brief History of Programming Languages" by Andrew Ferguson
Read and view Sol Lewitt's installation at MassMOCA
Reas on programming and art
(map of statement)
PRACTICE - Lesson 1: The Beginning, Chapters 1 - 3 from Learning Processing, Shiffman

Week 2, January 27
Processing dynamically ported to JavaScript (no more applet)
Processing.js on iPhone
Due next week: PRACTICE - Lesson 2: Everything You Need to Know, Chapters 4 - 6 from Learning Processing, Shiffman

Week 3, February 4
Trip to Liberty Science Center, meet with Ann Neumann, Director of Design and New Media
Lecture 2 and 3 notes
Processing Examples, based on Chapters 4-8
Artists presented: Camille Utterback; Golan Levin
Due next week:
CONCEPT - J.C.R. Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960) (PDF pg.8-25; Print pg.1-15)
PRACTICE - Wikipedia intro to object-oriented programming
Lesson 3: Organization, Chapters 7 - 8 from Learning Processing, Shiffman

Week 4, February 11
Lecture 4 notes
Processing Examples, based on Chapter 9
Artists presented: The Dumpster; by Levin, Nigam, Feinberg
Due next week:
CONCEPT - Douglas Engelbart, Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) (PDF)
PRACTICE - Lesson 4: More of the Same, Chapters 9 from Learning Processing, Shiffman
Chapters 6 and 7 from Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking by Nicolas Collins, on reserve at the library under Miranda, ML1380 .C36 2007

Week 5, February 18
Lecture 5 notes
Lecture Presentation
Art Presented: UnINtended Use Exhibition in Philadelphia; Wired on Arduino
Due next week:
CONCEPT - Myron W Krueger, Responsive Environments (1977) (PDF). Also on Library Reserve, essay 12 from Multimedia from Wagner to Virtual Reality edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan
PRACTICE - Chapters 1 - 4 from Physical Computing, O'Sullivan & Igoe
Chapters 1 - 3 and Appendices A & B from Getting Started with Arduino, Banzi
Circuit Simulations, Directions, Applets

Week 6, February 25
Processing + Video: Processing Examples using video library
QUIZ ON PROCESSING
Lecture 6 notes
Lecture Presentation
Arduino Sketches (from Getting Started): Sketch 1 ; Sketch 2 ; Sketch 3
Due next week:
CONCEPT - Interview of Ken Rinaldo
PRACTICE - Chapters 5 from Physical Computing, O'Sullivan & Igoe
Appendix C and Chapter 4 from Getting Started with Arduino, Banzi
Arduino: First Sketch
Microcontrollers, all sections

Week 7, March 4
Processing Art + Design: Cinema Redux by Brendan Dawes; Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin
About PWM
Arduino as Art: Accessories for Lonely Men by Noam Toran
Arduino Sketches: Pulse Width Modulation (PWM); Sketch 3 (from last week)
Due next class:
Choose an artist to present in class
CONCEPT - Interview with Tom Igoe
PRACTICE - Chapters 5 from Getting Started with Arduino, Banzi
Programming Techniques: Variables and Functions
Lesson 5: Putting It All Together, Chapters 10 - 12 from Learning Processing, Shiffman

Spring Break

Week 8, March 18
Arduino as digital music instrument: Piezo, PlayMelody example be sure to turn on Serial Monitor.
Copy complete example, piezoExample.pde, into Arduino editor
Analog Sensor: Potentiometer (pot) is a knob that provides variable resistance. It has three pins - the outside pins are for ground and 5V Power, the middle pin is Out to Microcontroller Analog In. Turn clockwise to increase flow of volts upto +5V, anti-clockwise to 0V. Copy code from Arduino page or here (includes Serial.write). Here is an image of pot and LED circuit.
Controlling a Servo motor by calling the Servo library (bundled with Arduino editor). Copy and past potLEDservoExample.pde and here is a photo of the pot and servo Arduino circuit
Use Firmata library to speak with software! Firmata wiki page
Copy and paste potServoFirmataExample.pde into Arduino editor and write to Arduino. Open Processing, copy and paste Processing example that calls Arduino library and animates according to pot.
Due next week:
Interview with Marie Sester
PRACTICE - Chapters 6 - 7 from Getting Started with Arduino, Banzi
Chapter 6 from Physical Computing, O'Sullivan & Igoe
Lesson 4, Ladyada

Week 9, March 25
Arduino sketch to simply move a servo to a specific degree (not using a potentiometer)
Controlling a servo using a pot - potLEDservoExample.pde
Artists and works viewed: "Threatbox.us" by Marie Sester (read her interview), Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Tim Hawkinson
A few simple projects using servo motor:
Single servo walking bot
Servo based dog feeder
Two servo robot
Due next week:
CONCEPT - Golan Levin, Computer Vision in Interactive Art (2004) (PDF)
PRACTICE - Lesson 4, Ladyada
Lesson 5, Ladyada (review)
Analog Input using potentiometer

Week 10, April 1
Serial Communication: A serial port is a serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time (digital pulses one after another back and forth) between computers.
KEEP TRACK OF WHICH PROGRAM YOU ARE RUNNING THE FOLLOWING SKETCHES (ARDUINO VS. PROCESSING)
Arduino: Print data from analog sensor (using a potentiometer or other variable resistor)
Circuit examples: Simple flex sensor circuit ; Simple pot circuit
Processing: Processing sketch reading Arduino input
Processing sketch reading Arduino input and represented by graphic element
Processing sketch reading Arduino input and visualizing by movement
back to Arduino: Print data from 2 analog sensors (using a potentiometer or other variable resistor) - Two pot circuit
And back to Processing: Processing sketch reading 2 Arduino inputs visualizing x,y movement (you need both the class and sketch
and Arduino: Print data from multiple sensors (using a potentiometer, digital...) - multiple sensor circuit and Visualize via Processing
Add a physical load (LED, servo) to Arduino: Print data from analog sensors and control LED (using a pot) and open earlier example of Processing controlling Processing sketch reading Arduino input and controlling single graphic element... bumpy
ASCII Table (subset of Unicode)
Jon Kessler
Due next week:
PRACTICE - Chapter 2 from Making Things Talk by Tom Igoe, execute Project I, Monski Pong using potentiometers
Arduino + Processing

Week 11, April 8
Serial Communication II: Arduino board receives data from software. In Arduino set up the input and output pins and open serial port and data rate (Serial.begin). In the loop function check for incoming data (Serial.available) and read that data (Serial.data). Example sketches from Daily Duino:
In Arduino open and write to board - serialReadPin.pde
In Processing open and run - serialReadPin.pde
The library "Firmata" sets up Arduino for serial communication through any of its pins (except 0,1 or RX, TX - used for serial communication). Using arrays, the library runs through the available pins and sets the board up for both in and out communication with software. "Firmata is designed to be all that you would ever need to upload to the Arduino, after which time, you can just send serial commands to the Arduino to change what it is doing for you. Remember that a library is similar to the classes that you have written."
Open "StandardFirmata": File > Sketchbook > Examples > Library-Firmata > StandardFirmata
Read through the library to get a sense of what it does and how it works.
Write StandardFirmata to Arduino
In Processing open and run: arduinoFirmata1.pde, simple Processing sketch to light single LED, same as earlier example, but using Firmata (from Daily Duino)
Set up your board with a series of LEDs with varous degrees of voltage using resistors (10k, 1k, none...). View Image
In Processing open and run: Multiple LED using a version of Allison Senak's sketch and class from Processing quiz.
Arduino and Flash... Flash does not have a serial communication library, so a Serproxy must be used to establish network communication between Flash and an open port. (Serproxy is a multi-threaded proxy program for redirecting network socket connections to/from serial links.) Jonah Model has set up sample files which I've edited down to a single example: Download example files
Student Artist Presentation: Kerrin Paul: Tatsuo Miyajima; Kevin Keane: Josh Nimoy; Dan McCafferty: Jenne-Pierre Gauthier
Due next week:
PRACTICE - Arduino + Flash on Arduino site (for those interested in interfacing Arduino and Flash)
Arduino + Flash tools by Beltran Berrocal or view Jonah Model's expansion on Beltran Berrocal's work
Arduino + Flash - AS3Glue
Arduino + Flash workflow
Flying Pig on Mechanisms and Movement

Week 12, April 15
Student Artist Presentation: Tom Winnicki presenting Robert Hodgin; James Stevens: Scott Snibbe; Nick Biewer: Char Davies; Andrew Heiss: Fran Yeoh
Work on final project - Write a Project Proposals, include the following:

1. Project Summary
• Project Title
• Project abstract (Two-three sentences) briefly describing the final product.
2. Project Proposal (Please provide the following information, organized with the same section headings as listed below. Word counts are maximums.)
• Project Description: Describe the proposed project (in greater detail than the abstract). (500 words)
• Site: Where is the ideal location for the project to be installed or presented? (150 words)
• Audience: Who is the audience for your project? How do you plan to engage them? (150 words)
• Interaction: Provide a scenario for how people will access, encounter and/or interact with your project. What are the different modes of interaction (knobs, buttons, switches, web camera)? How many people is the project designed for at a time? Is there an expected duration of interaction? (300 words)
• Participation: How will the presentation of the project invite people to participate? (300 words)
• Technology: List the technical requirements for your project - software and electronics.
• Maintenance: Will you design your and present your project for a lasting display? Will you construct a container for you project, what materials will you use? (150 words)

Week 13, April 22
Trip to Liberty Science Center

Week 14, April 29
Student Artist Presentation: Jeffrey Barnard: Zach Lieberman; Allison Senak: Hiro Yamagata; Britney Pringle: Erwin Redl; Luis Herrera: Jen Lewin; Ed Cabrera: Antenna Design;
Work on final project