First Questions

Questions:
A piece of art or interactive experience that uses electronics:

Besides the seniors projects from last year. There was this is one piece in the university gallery I saw that used black lights and lights.

Previous experience with sensors:

I made a remote control from a kit for the TV as a child. You program the remote by code to match the brand of the television set. Does put a computer together count for sensors?

Learning/ideas:

Kind of excited to learn more about sensors and electronics. I'm interested in glitch art so maybe I'll learn how to make glitch sound or make something glitch with Arduino.

First Class Discussion Aug 22

First Class Discussion

As far as interactive experiences or devices, video game hardware such as controllers are full of sensors that not only read input, but are experimenting with picking up touch commands, sound, and heat.
I have never really had much experience working with sensors personally, so i'm looking forward to getting to work with them in this class, as well as learning the basics of he code behind the applications of those sensors. 

Aug 22, 2016 - Discussion - Xiaoxi Zheng

I recently visited the John & Marble Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Inside, there was a contemporary piece in which it utilizes physical computing by outputting audio cues from a face assembled from industrial objects. When a viewer steps on a foot pedal, the audio produced a seemly random mixture of cries and industrial robotic sounds. This installation was part of Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art. This special exhibition "considers the relationship between mind, body and spirit".

I have no previous experience with sensors other than the traditional mouse, keyboard, display combination. I've attempted to create something simple through the VR medium that incorporated head tracking. From another class I took, people took advantage of the Brain-Computer-Interface in which they used it to produce 3D audio.

Joining this class without any hardware background seems like a challenge. Ultimately I want to use this class as an opportunity to create something that can express the ever complicated human-robot relationship. I look forward to piecing together something neat while I do some "soul searching".

First Class

Questions:

• A piece of art or interactive experience that uses electronics:

I can't think of any works that I've seen that've used sensors, but I can think of plenty of everyday interactions. My laptop is an interactive experience. Automated lights, sinks, and hand-dryers are somewhat more passive, but still interactive.

• Previous experience with sensors:

I made a very rudimentary remote-control car in middle school; the sensor was just whether or not the battery was connected to the motor by a spring clip, which I did manually. I'm not sure if that counts as a sensor.

• Learning/ideas:

I don't know much of anything about the hardware of electronics, so learning anything would be good. As for ideas, I really like Arthur Ganson's work, specifically his Machine with Oil. It's more intended to be a kinetic sculpture and doesn't use electronics, but I mostly like the idea of a machine that exists for its own pleasure, a machine that has autonomy and self-interest.

First Day of Class

https://vimeo.com/179819144

Lemons/Disscusion 08-22-2016

Today in class we hooked up a bunch of lemons together and made a complete circuit to power up a LED.

Also there is an electronic sensor that I come into contact everyday and that is my video game controller. It is a wireless controller so the buttons I push are the input and the output are the signals to the console. This class is my first time ever working with sensors.

Maria | Ch.10 LCD and library