11/8: [work and planning day]

Final project : Idea drawing and planning

Today, I will be meeting with each of you individually throughout the class time to talk about your final project.
We will discuss:

• ideas and drawings of your project
• inspirations
• a general schedule of progression
• materials and supplies for your project
• potential difficulties of your project
• branches of ideas

Simple Brian

The simple brain

Valentino Braitenberg VEHICLES - Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

Jakob von Uexküll A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: with A Theory of Meaning

Arduino Review

Remember these?

• Basic Component
• Transistor Circuits
• Solar Creatures
• Digital Input and Output
• variables
• if else --video
• Analog Input, Serial Print, Threshold --video
• Analog output and tone()

Range / Distance / Proximity sensors

Library for HC-SR04 written by Sam Sheffield
How to install a library

Structural complexity

1. How to merge or combine code
   • Copy one sketch to another sketch or create new sketch
   • Resolve any duplicating functions or global variables
     • (Functions: void loop(), void setup()
     • Variables: int, float)
   • Resolve any duplicating pin use
   • Delete any duplicate part that is doing the same thing
2. Comment your code!
3. Write out what you want your code to do
4. Optional: For loop video
5. Optional: using millis instead of delay (multitasking) Adafruit tutorial
6. Optional: Random_behavior

Interfacing with AC circuits

Where to get stuff!

Remember to check out links at the resource page!

How to attach things to motors

• Shaft Couplers
• Extensive article on motor mount and connections

Laser Cutting Resource

• MICA dfab laser cutting page
• Universal Manual
• How to make a file on Illustrator

interfacing

Kelly Dobson's Blendie

Switch Bot

Random User by Monobo