ART 4813 :: How To Build Robots for Artists
--->Please note: this schedule may be modified during the semester

WEEK 1 (JAN 15,17)

Introduction
Soldering basics
Screening: "Transistorized"

Transduction Scavenger Hunt - due JAN 22
-come prepared to discuss your findings

Reading: Introduction & chapter 1 (physical computing)

WEEK 2 (JAN 22,24)

Round Table: discussion of Transduction Scavenger Hunt

Amps, Volts, Resistance, Watts, Transduction
Circuits, Ohm's law [I=V/R, V=I*R, or R=V/I], Resistors, LEDS

Screening: Theo Jansen, Len Lye, Automata,
Arthur Ganson, Laura Beloff, Dan Roe, Ingrid Bachmann

Lab#1

Reading: chapter 2 and 3(physical computing)

WEEK 3 (JAN 29, JAN 31)

Screening: Alan Rath, Philip Ross, Robot Section of We-Make-Money-Not-Art,
Gregory Barsamian, David Bowen , Ken Feinglod

Lab#2

Reading: Vehicles, Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
by Valentino Braitenberg

WEEK 4 (FEB 5,7)

Screening(The role of Research in the arts): Suzanne Anker, ekac,
Susana Soares, Pablo Valbuena, Joseph Kohnke

Turn in Journals - Journals should include a minimum of one
weekly creative entry, transduction scavenger hunt
and both Lab#1 and Lab#2.

Lab#3 - Arduino Tutorial (complete 0-5)

WEEK 5 (FEB 12,14)

Screening: Simon Penny, Claude Zervas, Institute for Applied Autonomy, Alan Rath Video Lecture (Measure of Time)

Scavage hacking

Lab#4

Input I- Photo resistor, thermistor, and POTS to control
blink-rate of an LED

code - resistor_led

WEEK 6 (FEB 19,FEB 21)

Thursday - Arduino programming handout and discussion

Screening - Cynthia Breazeal, Choe U Ram

Thursday - Visiting Scientist Dr. David Miller (lecture notes)

Lab#5

Summary of the C language
Arduino Playground

Input II- Accelerometer(sensing movement) and Sonar (sensing distance)

code - accel_demo || sonar_demo

WEEK 7 (FEB 26, FEB 28)

Lab#6

Output- Motors and Servos

Additional Readings(for you pleasure)
Edward Shanken
Comments on Intelligent Agents, Howard Rheingold

WEEK 8 (MARCH 4,6)

Lab#7

Putting them all together
DC motor Control

WEEK 9 (MARCH 11,13)

Project presentations

WEEK 10 (MARCH 18, 20)

SPRING BREAK

WEEK 11 (MARCH 25,27)

(March 27)
Visiting Scientist : Dr. Andrew Fagg
Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making Learning, Finite State Machines - Carson room 205 (We will meet in our normally scheduled room at 9:30)

WEEK 12 (APRIL 1, 3)

WEEK 13 (APRIL 8, 10)

Progress Reports

WEEK 14 (APRIL 22, 24)

WEEK 15 (APRIL 29, MAY 1)

Final Projects due

WEEK 16 (MAY 6, 8)

Exhibition

WEEK 17 (MAY 8, 10)

Finals Week