Book:
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by Charles Petzold
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Non-required but helpful:
http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/
Flow : the psychology of optimal experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Additional reading assigned in classes based on topic and class direction
1)
Upload your videos or flash animations before class starts on to Vimeo, YouTube, or etc.. Then embed them into your post.
Save into category of your name and category "Concept Sketch".
2)
Video can take a long time and have any technical challenges.
Make sure you spend most of your time on/in the video showing user interaction. Show your smart object in action and iteration, including color and distinct recorded dialogue if your object has it.
DO NOT spend most of your time on styling and background music. At this stage use minimal video production skills. Think more in the lines of "video sketch" and video prototyping. Do the best you can in a week time frame, but Finish the assignment.
Your object and your user should have a complete interaction. In video.
3)
Blog Categories. This blog has a readership outside the immediate class. This is generally a good thing, for all parties. To help this categorize your posts correctly.
I’ve added two more categorizes. Concept Sketch and Hardware Photos. Please go through your posts to reto-actively categorize them if they included Code and/or also Hardware photos. Have posts in as many categories as is appropriate and needed [including your name].
Keep up the grad level work.
thanks,
Yury
Infrared Proximity Sensor – Sharp GP2Y0A21YK 
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Part I
Assignment 1
Toy Dissection [Introduction to electronics for mass-market]
Assignment 2
Introduction to Arduino, and
LED and POT Assignment
Assignment 3
Introduction to IR,
IR and LED “Theremin” Assignment
Assignment 4
Introduction to Winbond (Voice chip)
Build Circuit, Record Voice prompts
Assignment 5
Introduction to SPI for Winbond
IR and Voice “Theremin” Assignment
Midterm- Presentation/Installation/Crits
Part II
Design and create a concept that augments the
human experience in some playful way. Your concept should be context
and user aware. It should be aware when a user is present and what the
user is doing. It should off-load cognitive, physiological,
meta-physical, and physical load from the user– and in-effect somehow fit [even if sarcastically] into the general evolution of ”labor-saving
devices.” Projects are highly self-guided but build on concepts in the
first part of the class.
Final- Presentation/Installation/Crits
Part I
Assignment 1
Toy Dissection [Introduction to electronics for mass-market]
Assignment 2
Introduction to Arduino, and
LED and POT Assignment
Assignment 3
Introduction to IR,
IR and LED "Theremin" Assignment
Assignment 4
Introduction to Winbond (Voice chip)
Build Circuit, Record Voice prompts
Assignment 5
Introduction to SPI for Winbond
IR and Voice "Theremin" Assigment
Midterm- Presentation/Installation/Crits
Part II
Design and create a concept that augments the human experience in some playful way. You concept should be context and user aware. It should be aware when a user is present and what the user is doing. It should off-load cognitive, physiological, meta-physical, and physical load from the user– it should somehow [even if sarcastically] fit into the evolution of modern ”labor-saving devices." Projects are highly self-guided but build on concepts in the first part of the class.
Final- Presentation/Installation/Crits
Evander Batson
xinhe feng
FluffyLeecy
frankiezek
gaboratparsons
giang063
gracegotlost
lauriewaxman
Siwen Li
Xiaofeng Lin
Yury Gitman
mar28th
Max(TONG WEN)
Soohyun
sabotai
Susan Lin
Making Toys 
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