Tuesday, June 24, 2014

B Term Course: DXARTS 470: Sensing & Control Systems for Digital Art

Term B; M-Th 2-5 pm
105 Raitt Hall

Build sensory immersive environments, systems art, interactive objects or performances, and multimedia installations

Explore temporality, materiality, experience, and perception. 

Learn the fundamentals of:

•    Basic Arduino programming
•    Setting up a breadboard; color-coding, digital input/output, loops/bar graph & toggle switch
•    Hands on analog input; passive  & active sensors, relaying data to computers, serial interface & sampling
•    Systems aesthetic & art
•    Hands on analog output and motor basics; dim a LED, sweep a servo, control a servo over a serial port from processing, DC speed control, and directional DC control with H-bridge.
•    High current digital; advanced I/O, DC motors, pwm, H-bridges, relay & solenoid experiments
•    Xbee basics and construct networks
•    Sensors with Xbee
•    Motion capture; introduction to accelerometers
•    State machines; turnstile, FSM, and turing machines.