Posts filed under 'Spring 2007'

Week 12: The Revolution will be Tutorialized

What is step by step documentation: social context plus knowledge meets your intended audience on the stage of language. 4 real. What is the documentation assignment: document and create a tutorial explaining how to do something. Be funny, be autobiographical, be experimental, be descriptive. Some assembly required.

Below are the links to the materials covered in class:

Artists who use instruction sets
Sol Lewitt
Lewitt’s instruction set for conceptual art
Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher

Access principle

Why do I know more about the ink made by Issac Newton than by KR?

Sharing and disseminating unpopular knowledge:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/
http://omnipresence.mahost.org/inttxt.htm
http://www.12ozprophet.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=f0d038793019ff21f3b39cc482d90bf2&f=21

Global DIY
http://www.afrigadget.com/
http://www.open-america.org/

DIY Economies
Martha Stewart
ReadyMade
Make

Responsibility
http://dangerouslyfun.com/
http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/ka_fucking_boom/index.html
http://thedisease.net/?ejaculate=library&your_poison=Explosives

Examples from makers
shaving how to
martial arts as kinematic exercise:
Laser Tag tutorial by Theo Watson
Jeff Crouse’s Earthify with tutorial in Spanish
Ladyada
Ladyada’s xoxbox
Tim anderson
Saul Griffith’s Howtoons

Add comment April 17th, 2007

Week 11: Post Circuit Board

Conductive paint, epoxy, velcro, fabric, thread, plastic, connectors, tape and other materials for the Post Circuit Board Era. Ask the Lab Tech in the CDT lab for the Home X conductive fabric box to experiment with the materials we played around with in class.

Post Circuit Board tutorial


Check out Tracy’s post circuit board birthday card

Add comment April 17th, 2007

Week 8: The Midterm.

The assignment: spoil yourself. Make something for you or your home. Here are some of the results…

Carolina and Tracy’s haptic mouseskin earmuffs

Tracy’s blog post on the haptic earmuffs

Hee’s social knitting project

Yasmine’s multipurpose resin arm

Arava’s reading light

Becky’s slippers and desk

Danielle’s utensil organizer

Add comment April 17th, 2007

Week 5: Arduino

Arduino. Digital Output: an LED. Analog Input: a potentiometer. And look you moved a motor. Use the attached code and links. Tom Igoe and the internet provide the answers. You get to digg around for the questions. Ask me any of em if you got em. No assignment other than to play around with the code demonstrated in class and read your cartoons about physics. Quiz looming. Email the homex list is you have any questions.

Code to use a potentiometer to control an RC servo and send data to the serial monitor.

Add comment February 27th, 2007

Week 4 Soldering Workshop

Week 4 was all about the Arduino and soldering. Your assignment was to finish soldering all the components onto the bare bone Arduino printed circuit board. This is due in class next week. I have uploaded some images of the Arduino I soldered. Check each image and look at the photo-notes. They contain advice and some tricky spots to look out for. The NASA student handbook for hand soldering is in my mailbox in the CDT lab. Grab it and photo copy if you need some help sodering NASA-style. We are having a supplementary workshop on Friday @ 1200 hours in the CDT lab and on Saturday @ 1200 hours at Eyebeam in Chelsea (directions here). Attend these extra sessions if you are having trouble soldering your board or have additional questions about the assignment. In addition to the flickr photos I have uploaded, use the following links as references when you solder:

schematic
board view

Arduino assembly instruction by Tom Igoe (these instructions are for a slightly different version of the USB arduino. But they can be very helpful in conjunction with the proper schematic and board view.)

NASA Hand Soldering Handbook

Add comment February 13th, 2007

Previous Posts