Day 7: (Tue Sep 22, Week 4) Seeing is Forgetting

Notes for 2020-09-22.

New Assignments

1. New assignment, due before the next class: Exercise: Project Idea

2. New assignment, due in about a week: Exercise: Robot Party

3. Preparation for next class: watch Day 8 videos.

Daily Agenda

1. Review the ‘sensors and feedback’ videos.

2. Discuss more performance ideas.

   1. Major themes:

      1. mischief, playful chaos

      2. balance and disruption, interesting failures

      3. robot circus

      4. emergent behavior

   2. Be prepared for remote performance. Some specific relevant themes:

      1. autonomous robot culture

      2. telepresence and surveillance

      3. simulated or mixed reality

   3. One option: start with stock hardware, then extend and program.

      1. https://www.pololu.com/category/2/robot-kits

      2. https://www.robotshop.com/en/robots-colleges-universities.html

      3. https://www.robotmarketplace.com/products/educational_kits_main.html

      4. https://sphero.com/collections/for-school

      5. https://store.dji.com/product/tello?from=pages-education&vid=38421

   4. Or possibly build from scratch.

3. Breakouts.

   1. distinguishing subject matter vs content (borrowing from Lesson 16 from How to Be an Artist)

   2. seeing is forgetting (the name of the thing one sees) [Wes82]

   3. when is a robot not a robot?