Schedule – Spring 2009 Semester
Jan
27 First Day
30 Sign-up To Blog, Review Parts to get and where/how, Install operating system. Do homework Hello World, Hand-out Arduinos
Feb
3
Show Home Work. Discuss LED's, Lumi's Viewing Radius. Find LED
time-pieces, blog them. Make a series of LED's fire. Explore Time and
Squence in Code. Explore Position in Space for Effect. Assign Student
Lecturers.
6 Student Lectures Begin. Topic and Homework - LED Light and Time, Resisters, Series/Parallel.
10 Student Lectures. Topic and Homework - LED Light and Time- PWM and general construction and material effects.
13 Movie Theremin
17
Attend Toy Fair 15-18th. Blog 3 items you liked there. Include photo,
name, maker's name, and one paragraph of why you like it.
20 Show LED light Projects – Crit
24 Student Lectures. Topic and Homework – Order Speakers and other parts. Sound, Speakers, IR sensors, Ultra-sonic sensors
27 Student Lectures. Topic and Homework – IR sensors, Ultra-sonic sensors, Feedback via LED's
March
3 Student Lectures. Topic and Homework – More on IR sensors, Ultra-sonic sensors, Feedback via LED's
6 Student Lectures. Topic and Homework – Sound and Music Feedback via Speakers, PWM
10 Student Lectures. Topic and Homework – Sound Resonance in Material. Prototype 1
13 Student Lectures. Topic and Homework – Prototype 2
16 to 22 Spring Break
24 Project Crits, Prototypes 3
26
Electro-Plush, Sewing and Plush Fabric/construction- Focus on
Fabric/Stuffing, Blog 3 Characters you like. Never the same twice.
31
Electro-Plush, Sewing and Plush Fabric/construction- Focus on
Enclosures, Research Other Elecro-Plush, Find 3 and Describe why.
April
3 Electro-Plush, Prototype 1
7 Electro-Plush, Prototype 1 — User Play-Testing
10 Electro-Plush, Prototype 2
14 Electro-Plush, Prototype 3– User Play-Testing
17 Electro-Plush, Prototype 4
21 Holocaust Remembrance Day
24 Electro-Plush, Clone and Network
28 Electro-Plush, Clone and Network– User Play-Testing
May
1 Labor Day Clone and Network
5 Electro-Plush, Prototype 4– User Play-Testing
8 Electro-Plush, Prototype 4
9 & 10 Reviews for Major Studio
12 Last Day of Class. Individual Reviews.
16t-17 Thesis Reviews
18 Classes and exams end.
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