Welcome

Welcome to the SAMS electronics lab! We will be working together to learn basic electronics and embedded programming and apply it to making a pinball machine. What we build may or may not look a traditional machine: it might be more of a kinetic sculpture, musical instrument, or multi-player game.

The technical content of this course will borrow heavily from my Introduction to Physical Computing offered each fall in IDeATe. We will explore many of the exercises which cover electronics and embedded programming.

Where it will diverge is the project: I have built many machines, robots, and kinetic sculptures, but never a pinball machine, so we will be figuring that out together. There will be much room for working out the technology while also exploring artistic and game design ideas.

Please review the Syllabus to become acquainted with the formal requirements. This blog will be a place for examples, links to related material, and ongoing progress documentation.