Interface
Thursday 7 PM to 10 PM LAB,
Fridays 9 am to 3 PM DEMONSTRATIONS AND LABS
Todd Blair: Fabrication and Kinetics
Don Day: Electronics and Sensors
- home email: ddigor@well.com
- day job email: don@rgb.com
- day job phone: 510 814 7000
- home phone: 510 547 1260
- beeper: 510 720 6203
Barney Haynes: Media and Programming
Week 1
Friday 9/10 Introduction to the class
- Delineation of the 3 areas of concentration / departure
- Expectations: Assignments and show
- Possible strategies and models
- Lab: One of us will always be in the Lab on Thursday nights
Barney: Computers and FVP Lab (RM. 304)
- Tool and Key check out
- Computer Lab (tools & procedures)
- Software
- Video and Sound Editing Applications: (Premiere/Soundedit 16)
- Authoring Software: Max and nato+0.55
- Sampling Software: Vidvox Prophet
- Hardware
- http://www.bzzzzzz.com/BeeHive/ADB_IOADB/IO
- MIDI Interfaces
Don:
Power & Control
Electro Safety
- 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
Todd: Fabrication and Kinetic Movement
- Introduction to the Machine Shop
- Procedures, Protocol, and Safety
- Materials and Tools
- Handout: Shop Safety Guidelines and Gear to buy
- Links
Week 2
Thursday 9/16 LAB
Friday 9/17
Todd:
- Part 1 Major Mechanical Components: show and tell
- Part 2 Fabrication: Using the shop tools (bring safety gear and layout tools)
Don:
- Electronic components, sub-assemblies and systems
- Their physical corporeal nature
Barney:
- Digitizing and Editing
- Digital Video Configuration
- Intro to Premiere
- Tools and Layout
- Digitizing video and audio
- Quicktime and the Movieplayer window
Week 3
Thursday 9/23 LAB
Friday 9/24 Field Trip
- Retail
- Pseudo-surplus, Local and Mail Order
- Pseudo-surplus, Purely Mail Order
- Retail, Purely Mail Order
- Heavy Stuff
Week 4
Thursday 9/30 LAB
Friday 10/1
Todd: Fabrication:
- Fastening and Joining
- Welding (bring safety gear and welding gloves)
Don:
- Making connections
Power source
battery
power supply
line current
charged capacitor
compressor + regulator
sensor
touch switch
potentiometer
photoresistor
Control element
amplifier
CMOS gate
relay
solenoid pneumatic valve
actuator
motion
motor
solenoid
electromagnet
light
LED
incandescent bulb
gas discharge bulb
Synergy vs. Entropy
- Measurement
How to see the invisible properties of the components
- When do the components become something else
Synergy vs. Entropy
- Theremin circuit using 4046
Which was found on the excellent Theremin home page
Barney:
Digital Editing Continued
Premiere Continued
- Transition effects
- Motion Effects
- Filters (Video and audio)
- Layering (Video and audio)
Week 5
Thursday 10/7 LAB
Friday 10/8
Don:
Intro to Electronics
- Connections and disjunctions
- Metals and fluids for electricity
- Clarity and reflection for light
- Completion and closure
Doctrine of the circuit
- Prime movers - energy sources or reservoirs
connected through
- Control elements - switches, flopping wires, modulated resistances
to control
- Stuff that glows, honks and moves
Todd: Mechanical Movement: Power transmission Exercise
Barney:
Max continued:
Simple programs
MIDI objects
Decision and Comparison Making
Week 6
Thursday 10/14 LAB
Friday 10/15
Week 7
Thursday 10/21 LAB
Friday 10/22
Rough Draft due
Don:
- Sensors
- Just like your senses
taming power of the small - the need for amplification
- Touch - switches, piezoelectrics and strain gages
- temperature sensors
- Pyroelectric motion sensors
- Semiconductor junctions as thermometers
- Thermocouples/Peltier coolers
- Sight - cameras and photocells
- Photoresistors - CdS, CdSe
- Phototransistors, Photodiodes, reversed LEDs
- Modulated IR light
- Tiny cameras
- Hearing - microphones
- solenoids inside out
- piezo film, piezo crystals
- condensers and electrets
- (Smell is hard for machines)
- But taste is possible
- Extended dynamic range
invisible lights, IR and UV
- Remote sensing- action at a distance
- too cool
- Unexpected senses
- proximity
- electric fields
- Capacitance effects - Theremins
- Charge amplifiers, electroscopes, FETs
- magnetic fields
- Compasses
- Hall effect sensors
- varying electromagnetic fields
- reflected radio, radar
- Polhemus, Birds
- GPS
- Actuators
- Motors, continuous rotation
- Linear and limited actuators
- Solenoids
- loudspeakers
- Rotary solenoids
- Piezoelectrics
- Lights
- diodes
- incandescent
- gas discharge, flash
- el-wire
Todd:
Mechanical Movement: Art and Machines
Barney:
Intro to Max and MIDI
- Hardware Configuration
Midi Interface
Cables
ADB/IO Interface
ADB/IO application notes
- Software Configuration
OMS
- MIDI Basics
- What is it?
- Status and Data Messages
- MIDI Channels
- Messages, Note on, Note off, etc.
- Using MIDI with Max
- Max Overview
- Objects and Messages
- Patching
Week 8
Thursday 10/28 LAB
Friday 10/29
Todd: Individual Meetings
Don:
- Building working circuits
- theoretical motivation may be limited
- causality required
- Debugging
- why doesn't it work the first time?????
- Cartesian dissection
Barney:
Max Objects continued:
- Interfacing with ADB/IO
- Max-IAC, Vidvox Prophet, Virtual synths
Week 9
Thursday 11/4 LAB
Friday 11/5
Barney:
Big Eye
- Windows
- Channels
- Editors
- Filters
Todd and Don: Variant Paths
Week 10
Thursday 11/11 LAB
Friday 11/12 Variant Paths
Week 11
Thursday 11/18 LAB
Friday 11/19 Alpha> Prototype Due
Week 12
Thursday 11/25 Thanksgiving
Friday 11/26 Thanksgiving
Week 13
Thursday 12/2
Lab + Problem Solving
Friday 12/3
Lab + Problem Solving
Week 14
Thursday 12/9
Lab + Problem Solving
Friday 12/10
Lab + Problem Solving
Week 15
Thursday 12/16
Preparation for the show
Friday 12/17
Show and Final Critique
Grade Break Down
Participation & Attendance including the mini assignments 20%
(The Thursday night Lab is not mandatory)
Rough Draft 15%
Alpha> Prototype 25%
Final Project 40%
