Week 1 - September 6
- Class introductions
- Ritual reading of the syllabus
- link to slides from class
- the breadboard & circuit schematics
- making your own switch
- Readings Due Friday September 13 by 10am
- Assignments Due Friday September 13 by 10am
- Start a blog or website for the course. Send me a link to your site.
- On your website, write a short response to the reading (between 200-350 words). Following Crawford’s argument of interaction as something that exists along a continuum, how do you define interactivity? Do you agree with his definition? Why might it be useful to have different kinds of ways of explaining how things work or interacting with different systems?
- Get trained in the IDM Design Lab on Brightspace and the Makerspace.
- sign up for presentations in pairs
- On paper, sketch out an imagined switch that controls a system (represented by an LED turining on or off). Make a circuit that realizes this sketch. What does this indicate? How is the action of using the switch relate to the light turining on? Clearly document your switch with video and post the sketch and video on your class journal. Now do it again, building a totally differrent switch that indicates something else. Document this and post it to your site. Write a brief description of how each works, what the light signifies, and how the input relates to the output. Bring at least one of these switches to class. You may work in pairs on this project. If you do work in pairs, make the same post on each documentation site.
- Suggested Readings
- There are No Electrons pp 1-41.
- Getting Started in Electronics pp 5-37.