Tools and Tech

This is the place for Tools & Tech resources.

Lectures / workshops

Week 1

Slides week 1

Arduino BareMinimum example

Arduino Blink example

Week 2

Slides week 2

Use a button

Use LED as light sensor

Create a capacitive sensor

Create a capacitive sensor with a pencil

Week 3

Slides week 3

Tone example

Use a piezo element as sensor

Original drawdio layout

Week 4

Slides week 4

Drawdio schematic

Resources

Arduino main site

Lots of arduino examples

Arduino wiki with many examples and code snippets

A circuit simulator, play around with this!

Arduino programming notebook

Short intro into electronics

Description of the sensors kit for arduino

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Just dumping relevant tools to use:

1st, second, maybe third years:

• Thimble live HTML editor (webmaker)
• X-Ray Googles (webmaker)
• Popcorn (webmaker)

workshop ideas:

• build a book scanner from scratch (Alessandro)
• script/program with Minecraft (or FLOSS clone)
• script/program with Waterbear
• build a 3D printer from scratch
• use the 3D printer to print models generated from Minecraft (or FLOSS clone)
• version distributed graphic design (xuv)
• consent and publishing (eleanor)
• collaborative font design (ben martin)
• HTML/CSS to print (OSP)
• ROM hacking/moding
• Retro death telegraphy (nnnnn)