Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Posterchild for an open approach to learning, DIY electronics and micro-production, Arduino is made in Italy since 2005. It has become the reference platform in the world of interaction design, interactive art and is now taking over the web industry with projects like Adrian McEwen's
Bubblino, Nicholas O'Leary's
Ambient Orb, or the
BakerTweet from Poke.
This one day hands-on workshop will focus on getting participants up to speed on the Arduino platform by taking them through setup, and hands on examples to get them started. All materials will be included, you only need your laptop.
This workshop will be lead by
Nick Weldin, who has been teaching Arduino to beginners and advanced alike at Tinker.it! since 2007. What will be covered during the workshop?
AM
- Introduction of workshop leaders and assistant
- Introduction to Arduino
- Interaction - Sensors - Actuators
- Installing Arduino on participant's laptops
- Basics of the Arduino Software enviroment
- Basic sensors
- Starting exercises in booklet
PM
- Continuing exercises in the booklet
- Looking over the contents of the workshop kit
- The Arduino family of products
- Arduino talking back to the computer (Serial Communication)
- The computer talking back to Arduino
- Other options for connecting to the computer - ethernet, zigbee, Bluetooth
- More complex sensors, hacking into devices
- Controlling bigger things
- Where/how to get help?
Tinker.it! is an interaction design consultancy based in London and
Milan that helps its clients understand the creative potential of new
technologies and apply it to interactive experiences through products,
spaces and events that bridge the physical and the digital.
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