Robotic Arts Intro Fall 2017 (IA277.01)

Instructor: Lucas Haroldsen (lharoldsen@mica.edu)
Class Site: yasunaga.work/raif17
syllabus: syllabus.pdf
Resources: links.html

09/19: more listening --- [Serial Communication and Analog input]

Handmade Switches!

Let's take a look at everyone's work on their two switches
Pay attention to the materials and construction
Document the switches! Two images or one short video to folder 9/19

**Reminder : day bug and night bug

The day bug and night bug documentation is due. You should have two images or one short video in folder 9/12

Review

Digital signals
Input and Output
digitalRead and digitalWrite
variables
if statement

Today, we will go over together:

Arduino reference page here!
Analog input
Serial Communication --> Serial Monitor and Serial Plotter
Using potentiometer, photocells, conductive foam
Setting a threshhold for your sensor
Combining conditional logic to detect ranges(||, &&)
Analog switches
Fritzing

Week 4 Slide

Tonight's Code

Reading: Medium by Malcom McCullough

"To begin, the fundamental difference between digital and traditional media is rooted in microstructure: bits versus atoms. Processes that move physical atoms around are precisely the irreversible aspect of traditional work. According to very fundamental laws of physics, operations such as cutting, bonding, and mixing are irreversible. Mix black paint into white, and you've got grey for the duration. Crack a fine piece of laboriously refined jade work, and you have lost not only time but also expensive material—a rare configuration of atoms.

By contrast, the microstructure of the computer medium is bits: a specified arrangement of symbols. The computer is made out of atoms, to be sure, but its logic employs symbols that quantize the physical charges they represent—it obtains stable bits. Because any physical deviations caused by atoms get rounded and corrected, these symbols built on bits do not degrade. In the microstructure of the digital medium, arrangements and values can always be reconstructed; their previous states can be stored and recalled; additional instances and versions can be replicated."

From Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand by Malcolm McCullough

What did you think?

Here is the text The Theory of Affordances by James J. Gibson

Presentaton

How Computers Work: Information (binary)

Formula for Computer Art

Doug Engelbart's presentation at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December 9, 1968 titled "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect."

Full Text here --> Afordance++
by Pedro Lopes, Patrik Jonell, Patrick Baudisch at the Hasso Plattner Institute

Conductive Skin by Interactive Materiality

Embroidered potentiometer

Céleste Boursier

Ryota Kuwakubo

electronic harvesting day

On 10/3, the class is going to be dedicated to talking apart electronics and documenting. Start collecting, looking around for broken, unwanted, curious electornic objects to take apart.
You can find E-waste bins on campas where unwanted electronics are collected. Here are some locations.

First floor of Digital Print Center next to the computer lab. There are black shelves and blue bins for broken electronics
Brown Building First floor on the way to Cafe Doris
Bunting First Floor next to bulletin board
Station Building?

HOMEWORK

Analog Switch

By creating thresholds and looking for specific ranges, we can use the data from a single analog input to control digital signals, almost like several digital inputs.

For homework, I would like you to build off of today's sketch using two analog inputs.

Create a pattern of light using the number of LEDs of your choice. Analog inputs can be the same or different. Create as many thresholds as you like.

Optional : Experiment with the quality of the light by either embedding or concealing your LEDs.

Trigger a LED pattern when SensorA and SensorB are both in the range you specified at the same time

Trigger a LED pattern when SensorA is in range and trigger another kind of pattern when sensorB is in range

Trigger a LED1 when SensorA is in range and trigger LED2 when the sensorB is in range

Familiarize yourself with reading analog inputs
(Potentiomenter/Photocell/Piezo/variable resistors/Lie Detector/or other analog sensors of your choice)

Use the Serial monitor to see what values are coming from your analog sensor

Decide which ranges of values of your analog sensor will trigger different patterns of LED blinking

Document

2 photos or 1 short video of your work
arduino sketch .ino file