Week 2

Raw Data, part 1

In this week's lecture, we will:
  • review Arduino and Processing programming concepts
  • learn about Serial communications
  • make our own sensors using magic and electric fields
  • introduce some basic data manipulation
  • transfer data from Arduino to Processing

Links

The CapSense library for Arduino
Some background on capacitive sensing, if you feel like digging deeper

Projects using raw sensor data:
Nuage Vert
Scott Snibbe - Blow Up

Source Code for this week:

Reading for next week

Please read this article by Jim Campbell. The diagram ("Formula for Computer Art") discussed in the article can be viewed here. This article will serve as the basis for the midterm assignment, which we will discuss next week.

Also, remember that the Data Portrait assignment is due next week.