Week 2

Congratulations on your first week assignments. Good Work. I’ll update the class projects section soon and include pictures of your objects, tools and tasty food. In the meantime enjoy Bryan with his duct tape rose twixt his teef. Your week 2 assignment came in a few parts…

Part A: send an email to Michelle Kempner and tell her whether or not you will need knitting supplies or not. Tell her if you need yarn, needles or both. You might want to attend this event to learn more about the state of the knitted arts. You knit next week.

Part B: read Chapter 2 from The Cartoon Guide to Physics. Just relax. Read. absorb. Don’t stress if you don’t understand everything yet. You can buy this book at Amazon and it’s online here (flickr book):

Part C: Also read up on the Arduino here.

We will spend the next few weeks after the knitting workshop with Mikey K working on building, programming and experimenting with this microcontroller platform. Familiarize yourself with the basics on this site. Use the listserv and ask question about the arduino and if you have experience try to help people. Discussion on the listserv is part of your participation grade so DO ask and answer questions. We will be following these online instructions to populate and solder our USB Arduinos.

The part’s list is up here. Its just a partial list so far. Becky has volunteered to lead the ordering of parts. Give her a hand. Download the spreadsheet here and help fill-in the more common parts. She is making kits for everyone from the equipment available in the CDT dept. We will give you an update today or tomorrow with more details.

February 3rd, 2007

Entry Filed under: Assignments, Spring 2007