EnterFace - Fall 2001

• Delineation of the 3 areas of concentration / departure
• Expectations: Assignments and show
• Possible strategies and models
• Collect contact information for students

Barney: Computers and the Hybrid Lab (RM. 304) 

• Tool and Key check out
• Computer Lab (tools & procedures)
• Software
• Authoring Software: Max/MSP and nato+0.55
• Hardware
• ADB/IO
• MIDI Interfaces
• EZIO vendor
• EZIO inventor

• Hazards of the disposable flash camera

powered by an innocent AA battery 
• Sources of power

Sun, nuclear power plants (PG&E), chemicals, lemons and potatoes 
• Too much energy getting loose

Circuit Breakers, Fuses (flash bulb in socket) 
• Toxics Soldering, lead with the Romans, smoking the flux 
• Heat a LITTLE too much energy getting loose 

liquid metal on the flesh makes for a nasty burn 
• Tiny objects close to your eyes
• Shock causes you to lose motor control
• Current through your heart can kill you

• Planing your design - design, prototype
• Sourcing your materials - surplus, dumpster diving
• Fabricating - tools, the lab and the metal shop

• Machine Design
• Cal Tech Library
• Reference Help Desk
• Engineering Zone
• Welding Info

Assignment 2: Book Report
Pick an artist working in the field of kinetic and electronic art, write a report and prepare a presentation. Due October 1st.

Steve Wilson's Massive Artist List
 

Classical Kinetic Artists  Hero of Alexandria Jacques de Vaucanson Marcel Duchamp Thomas Wilfred Jean Tinguely Nam June Paik Len Lye Pol Bury Nicolas Schöffer James Seawright Otto Piene Fletcher Benton Billy Klüver Robert Whitman Charles Frazier

Classic Groups and Organizations  USCO EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology) ZERO GRAV PULSA

Sources Field Trip 1: Friday 10/26 Just like a class - absence condemed

Sources Field Trip 2: Saturday 11/17 Optional but strongly encourged but fun

• Retail
• Al Lashers
• Electronics Plus
• Rat Shack
• Pseudo-surplus, Local and Mail Order
• Halted
• Weird Stuff
• Alltronics
• Jameco
• Pseudo-surplus, Purely Mail Order
• Timeline, Inc.
• Marlin P. Jones & Associates
• Retail, Purely Mail Order
• Solarbotics, part of the BEAM cult

Good for solar cells 
• Digikey
• Mouser Electronics
• Heavy Stuff
• Quinns
• Allen Steel
• Triangle Machinery & Tool Co (408) 452-8666

1051 Commercial Ct San Jose, CA 95112

Introduction to Materials; Demonstrations

Video tape showing

Don:

• Electronic components, subassemblies and systems
• Their physical corporeal nature
• Exercise: Connect a circuit and make it go or glow or growl or grow.
• Power sources
• Solar Cells
• Chemical cells and batteries
• Power supplies (from wall AC to stable DC)
• AC (from the wall, or transformed to lower voltage)
• Connection methods
• Wire nuts
• Wire wrap
• Conductive Epoxy
• Solder
• Heat shrink tubing
• Measurement
• Analogies - electrons as lemmings
• Multimeter (volts and ohms)
• Oscilloscope (volts in time)

• Major Mechanical Components in Kinetic Art
• Exercise: Make a flimsy articulated mechanism.


(Please bring cardboard, pushpins and utility knives OR wood scraps and nails) 

Barney: Max 

• Intro to Max /MSP and nato.0+55+ modular
• Anatomy of Simple Patch: Objects, Message Boxes, Number Boxes, User Interfaces and Parameters

Don: Control elements and amplifiers 

• Their physical corporeal nature
• Exercise: Connect a circuit and make it go or glow or growl or grow.

• Introduction the shop
• Materials and Fabrication Strategies
• Exercise: Fastening and Joining with drills and taps

Assignment 1 Due - Random Motion

Assignment 2 Due - Report on Artist

• Wim Delvoye
• Brian Walker
• Amy Youngs
• Paul Friedlander
• Ray Kurzweil
• Nam June Paik - fluxus
• Nam June Paik - artcyclopedia
• Applied Autonomy
• Jean Tinguely
• Sabrina Raaf
• Werner Klotz
• Clayton G. Bailey

Barney: Max

• Bangs, Metros, Toggles, Passing Messages
•  Objects of the Day
• Cannibalizing Patches

Don

• Black boxes containing computer crap

Todd

• Power Transmission

Video tape showing

Individual Meetings 1 - Present project ideas

• 7:00 Ellen
• 7:20 North
• 7:40 Erica
• 8:00 Alex
• break
• 8:40 Joseph
• 9:00 Eli
• 9:20 Michael C

Individual Meetings 2 -Present project ideas

• 7:00 Sherm
• 7:20 Eroca
• 7:40 Michael
• 8:00 Noah
• break
• 8:40 Liz
• 9:00 Jennavave
• 9:20 Anne
• 9:40 Angela Sue

• Monday 10/22

Lab Exercise - Relay control of Motor

• Schematic Diagrams

Wednesday 10/24

Barney: Max/MSP

• Friday 10/26 for a Surplus Fieldtrip
• Meet at the Hybrid Lab (classroom) Friday morning at Noon

• or Saturday 10/27 for a Surplus Fieldtrip
• Meet at the Hybrid Lab (classroom) Saturday morning at 10 am

Don: Systems 

• Integrating power and control

Exercise: Connect an informationally full sensor-control element-actuator circuit and try to make it work 

• Mechanical movement
• Major components in power transmission

Barney: MIDI Interfaces,

• Connecting MIDI Devices with Max
• Max and MIDI
• MIDI related objects

Exercise: Make a patch controlling a light strip with a drum machine

• Processing Input
• Changing Parameters of objects
• Right to left order
• Get Info
• Sub-patches and Encapsulation
• Objects of the day

Lab Exercise - Sensors

Barney: Integrating Max with the ADB/IO, and the EZIO

• Connecting the Outputs
• ADB/IO EZIO Objects
• Drunks and Uzis
• Exercise: Controlling relays with Max

Don: Debugging Physical Systems 

• Measurement

How to see the invisible properties of the components 
• When do the components become something else

Synergy vs. Entropy 
• Cartesian decomposition

Exercise: make the circuits from week for actually work 

• Motor Exercise: Build a temporary components to transform rotary motion

Assignment 3 due - Midterm Project Presentation to Class

Saturday 11/17 - Bonus Field Trip

    Triangle again, plus Halted, Alltronics
      

Lab Exercise - Sound and Light

Barney: Integrating Max with the ADB/IO, and the EZIO cont. 

• Connecting sensors and switches to the IO
• Polling and related issues
• Counters and Conditionals
• Range Finders
• Exercise: Connecting and processing light sensors

Evaluation - everyone must be in attendance

Barney: 2nd Max Assignment: 
Build a patch that processes a range of input data and controls 
a motors direction. 

Barney: nato.0+55+ modular

• Modular Structures
• 242.film. 242image objects,242ekran

Lab

Lab

Final Lab to work out kinks

Work Installed and ready to critique

Final Show