Where: September 17th, 4-6 pm, t=0 Festival at MIT

What we’ll be doing: Participants and workshop facilitators are going to play around with sensors, Arduino, Processing, and simple prototyping materials, for the purpose of exploring physical ideation.  No prior experience in Arduino, circuits, or coding necessary.  Come with your openness to ideas and love of meeting others through creating.  The rough outline of things:

•  open hardware
• arduino
• cool projects
• basic tutorials
• play

What this means:

Feel free to hop in and hop out during the course of the workshop.

If you feel like experimenting, go ahead.

If you feel like going through some of the basics with me, I’ll be here.

We have a ton of Ardunios and sensors. Let’s have some fun.

 Download

If you haven’t already, download Arduino and Processing.

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

http://processing.org/download/

I’m Kawandeep.  You can call me Kawan (K + Oven). @kawantum

I hang out at Sprout a lot.  I think there is a lot of business potential and creative potential revealed when you know how to make things.   I research at a think tank that addresses societies biggest problems, bringing together physicists, computer scientists, linguists, political theorists, … basically a ton of awesome people.  I help produce lots of art stuff around town.

Why open hardware?

http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/

Give away the bits, sell the atoms

More cool projects!

 

TEAGUE Give Water from TEAGUE on Vimeo.

 

 

MORE AWESOME PROJECTS

 

GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY

There is a lot of material online, any problems have probably been asked before.

Keep in mind: If you want to unplug the arduino, close the Arduino IDE first, then unplug. Make sure there is some resistance in your circuit- avoid sending the 5V straight to ground without anything, it could overload the pin.

• BLINK http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Blink
• Add some LEDs http://www.oomlout.com/a/products/ardx/circ-02
• Add a knob (potentiometer) hint: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogReadSerial
• Add some other sensors! http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Knock
• Add a motor! http://www.oomlout.com/a/products/ardx/circ-03

What would you do with this?

How will you use the Arduino?  If you were to start a business, if you were to make some art, if you were to make something for a better day to day life, what would it be? Sketch out some ideas, tape together some prototypes, build some simple, illustrative circuits.

 Thanks!

to t=0 and to you for participating in the workshop.  Many many thanks to Chris Connors for providing the Arduinos.

Feel free to e-mail me (whichlight [at] gmail) or tweet me @kawantum