Fall 2023 Course Guide¶
Welcome to 16-223 Creative Kinetic Systems! This introductory physical computing course addresses the practical design and fabrication of robots, interactive gadgets, and kinetic sculptures.
Fall 2023 News¶
For Fall 2023, the course will be held in the IDeATe Physical Computing Lab, Hunt A10, on the library lower level.
This marks the third year using the Raspberry Pi Pico programmed in CircuitPython as the primary embedded computing platform for the course. We will also once again build interactive marble machines.
The key principles of the course remain the same: a beginner-friendly approach, collaborative development of machine prototypes, and computation and mechanism used to create playful physical behavior.
Final Project Gallery¶
For Fall 2023, we worked with the Children’s School and developed marble machines for the four- and five-year old children. The final results can be browsed in the Final Projects Gallery.
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Course Role and History¶
This course is part of the Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) program at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a recommended portal course for entering either the IDeATe Intelligent Environments or Physical Computing programs. This course makes use of the IDeATe fabrication and lab facilities in the lower level of Hunt Library. The permanent link for the course is https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/16-223.
This course was offered under this name in Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 and Fall 2018, but was previously known as 16-223: Introduction to Physical Computing in Fall 2017, Fall 2016, and Fall 2015, and under 16-223/60-223 in Fall 2014. That name is still used by 60-223: Introduction to Physical Computing.
Creative Kinetic Systems Fall 2023 Course Guide by Garth Zeglin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.