Fall 2014 Assignments

• Unit 1: Energy, Information, Transduction
  • Section A: Basic Circuits: Overview
    • Part i: Ohm’s Law
      • 1.a.i.1 Bench Battery Grid
      • 1.a.i.2 Continuity Test
      • 1.a.i.3 Power Switch
      • 1.a.i.4 Voltage Divider
      • 1.a.i.5 Switch with Pullup
      • 1.a.i.6 LED Current Limiter
      • 1.a.i.7 Photocell with Bias Resistor
      • 1.a.i.8 Pressure Pad with Bias Resistor
      • 1.a.i.9 Transducer with DMM
      • 1.a.i.10 Smoke A Resistor
      • 1.a.i.11 Voltage Regulation
      • 1.a.i.12 Capacitance
    • Part ii: Schematics and Breadboards
      • 1.a.ii.5 Op-Amp Level Translation
      • 1.a.ii.1 Relay Driver
      • 1.a.ii.2 Transistor Driver
      • 1.a.ii.3 Multichannel Driver
      • 1.a.ii.4 Transistor and Sensor for Power
  • Section B: Arduino Starter
    • Part i: Arduino IDE
      • 1.b.i.1 Arduino Introduction
      • 1.b.i.2 Coding Compiling Deploying
    • Part ii: Basic Examples
      • 1.b.ii.1 Blink Bulb
      • 1.b.ii.2 Blink Motor
      • 1.b.ii.3 Analog Read Serial
      • 1.b.ii.4 Digital Read Serial
      • 1.b.ii.5 Servo Sweep
      • 1.b.ii.6 Motor Knob
    • Part iii: Sampling Rate Resolution Scaling
      • 1.b.iii.1 Event Loop Programming
      • 1.b.iii.2 Resolution and Mapping
    • Part iv: Serial Interfaces
      • 1.b.iv.1 Adafruit PWM I2C
      • 1.b.iv.2 MPU6050 IMU I2C
      • 1.b.iv.3 WS2801 RGB LED SPI
  • Section C: Pure Data Starter
    • Part i: Data Flow
      • 1.c.i.1 PureData Ide
      • 1.c.i.2 PureData Events Signals
      • 1.c.i.3 PureData Externals
      • 1.c.i.4 PureData Lists
    • Part ii: Physical Computing with PureData
      • 1.c.ii.1 PureData And Arduino
      • 1.c.ii.2 Sensor To GUI
      • 1.c.ii.3 Sensor To LED
      • 1.c.ii.4 Sensor To Actuator
      • 1.c.ii.5 Sensor To Sound
    • Part iii: Advanced PureData with Music
      • 1.c.iii.1 Music: Melody and Pitch
      • 1.c.iii.2 Music: Melody and Rhythm
      • 1.c.iii.3 Music: Melody and Dynamics
      • 1.c.iii.4 Music: Additive Synthesis
      • 1.c.iii.5 Music: FFT Analysis
      • 1.c.iii.6 Music: Synthesis with Amplitude and Frequency Modulations
      • 1.c.iii.7 Music: Synthesis with Sampling
    • Part iv: Advanced Embedded Physical Computing
      • 1.c.iv.1 Getting Started on the Raspberry Pi
      • 1.c.iv.2 Using WiringPi on the Raspberry Pi
      • 1.c.iv.3 Using An Arduino with a Raspberry Pi
      • 1.c.iv.4 Using Raspberry Pi from Python and Python from Pd
    • Part v: Dream Machine
• Unit 2: Super Machines
  • Section A: Smart Machines
    • Part i: Mechanical Intelligence
    • Part ii: Mapping with Arithmetic
      • 2.a.ii.1 One to One Mapping
      • 2.a.ii.2 One to Many Mapping
      • 2.a.ii.3 Many to One Mapping
      • 2.a.ii.4 A Little Calculus
    • Part iii: Mapping with Machine Learning
      • 2.a.iii.1 Orientation Classification
      • 2.a.iii.2 Gesture Recognition
      • 2.a.iii.3 Touch and Activate
      • 2.a.iii.4 Machine Vision
      • 2.a.iii.5 Autonomous Robot
  • Section B: State Machines
    • Part i: Ideation
    • Part ii: Something Else
    • Part iii: Autonomous Robot
  • Section C: Get Real
    • Part i: The Insides
      • 2.c.i.1 Batteries
      • 2.c.i.2 Proto Board
      • 2.c.i.3 PCB Fabrication
    • Part ii: The Outsides
      • 2.c.ii.1 Making a Box
      • 2.c.ii.2 Weather Proofing
    • Part iii: Autonomous Robot Final
• Unit 3: Super Powers
  • Section A: Superhero – Self
    • Part i: Accessorize Self
      • 3.a.i.1 Wayfinder
      • 3.a.i.2 Univision
    • Part ii: Free Body
      • 3.a.ii.1 Wixel
      • 3.a.ii.2 Nrf
      • 3.a.ii.3 Light Blue
    • Part iii: Wearable Superhero
  • Section B: Superhero – Others
    • Part i: Situated Data Visualization
    • Part ii: Distributed Sensor Network
    • Part iii: Embedded Something
  • Section C: Final Project