Embedded Systems and Kinetic Art: 2010

Embedded Systems and Kinetic Art

CS5968 and Art4455
Fall 2010

Instructors: Erik Brunvand (School of Computing) and Paul Stout (Department of Art and Art History)

When: Monday and Wednesday, 11:50a-2:50p

Where: Sculpture 183. This is in the Sculpture wing (south wing) of the Art building. You can find an interactive campus map here. Search for "sculpture" to highlight that building on the campus map. For the engineers, the sculpture/art building is on the opposite side of campus from MEB!

Course Schedule

This collaborative course is constantly evolving, so the schedule will be changing from week to week as the course evolves...

Date	Meet In:	Topics/Agenda	Links
M: 8/23	Sculpt 183	Introduction Historical survey of kinetic art	Erik's intro slides, two to a page, and six to a page in PDF Paul's kinetic art history slides (coming soon)
W: 8/25	MEB 3133	Arduino hands on lab Very basic C programming First assignment: Explore and find an example of a kinetic artist - prepare a very short (2-5 min) presentation about what you've found. Presentations on Monday 8/30	Hands-on slides, two to a page and six to a page in PDF
M: 8/30	Sculpt 183	Basic electronics theory Continue historical survey of kinetic art Short student presentations	Paul's electronics slides (coming soon)
W: 9/1	MEB 3133	More C programming Light meter lab Tiny theremin	Hands-on part II, two to a page and six to a page in PDF
M: 9/6		No Class: Labor Day
W: 9/8	Sculpt 183	Field trip to Salt Lake Art Center to look at the artist-designed kinetic mini-golf Meet in Sculpt 183 @ 11:50, or at Salt Lake Art Center at 12:15	The Salt Lake Art Center has an installation of artist-designed mini-golf. We'll get a tour and a discussion about maintenance issues for kinetic scupltures from SLAC preparator Jared Steffensen
M: 9/13	Sculpt 183	Basic 3d sculpture lab Individual project demo/critique	Principles of Design, in PDF Basic 3d sculpture lab group activity
W: 9/15	Sculpt 183	Finish Kinetic art review Forming groups
9/20	MEB 3133	Buttons/Switches Interfacing with transistors and relays DC motors Discussion of first team assignment	Slides on Invisible Logic, show from last year's class, in PDF
9/22	MEB 3133	Reversing DC motors with H-bridges Relay vs. transistor vs IC Stepper motors Unioplar vs. bipolar Stepper identification Stepper driver circuits Stepper driving code
9/27	MEB 3133	AC switching Group project #1 concept presentation and critique Each group presents ideas, preliminary sketches, thoughts on materials
9/29	MEB 3133	More topics from Paul More group critiques of project #1 concepts
10/4	Sculpt 183	Paul's topics (Erik's out of town) Work day for project #1
10/6	Sculpt 183	Paul's topics (Erik's out of town) Work day for project #1
10/11		No Class: Fall Break
10/13		No Class: Fall Break
10/18	Sculpt 183	Presentation and critique of project #1
10/20	MEB 3133	Additional output possibilities Multi-LED drivers (shift resigters, serial LED drivers, matrix LED drivers) Other SPI-interface chips Introduction of Project 2 Theme: Communication Team shuffle...	A comprehensive slide set about SPI communcation to external LED driver chips including the 74HC595, STP08DP05, MC14489, MAX 7219, and TLC5940.
10/25	MEB 3133	FInish up external LED driver chip discussion
10/27	Sculpt 183	Project 2 - Idea/concept critique for Project 2
11/1	Sculpt 183	FInal Final Project 1 review
11/3	Sculpt 183	LCD Screens Project 2 work day	Slides on LCD screens used with the Arduino: two to a page and six to a page
11/8	MEB 3133	Interrupt processing Deep dark programming secrets	Slides on interrupt programming: two to a page and six to a page Here's a pointer to the AttachInterrupt function for the Arduino's two main external interupts Here's a pointer to the PCInt code on the Arduino site that allows using other Arduino pins as external interrupts
11/10		Project 2 work day
11/15	Sculpt 183	Xerox Machine Disassembly and Salvage?
11/17	Sculpt 183	Project 2 critique
11/22	Sculpt 183	Project 3 idea/concept critique
11/24		Project work day - no formal class
11/29
12/1
12/6
12/8	Sculpt 183	Final Project 3 critique