Sasha Leitman

Monday

Morning 9am - 12:30pm

• Opening Sketching Exercise
• Class Overview
• Signal flow and toolchain
• Context, History, Examples
• Electronics overview
• Background and Intro To Microcontrollers, Arduino and Teensy Platforms

Afternoon 1:30 - 5pm

• Hands on Lab 1: Button In, MIDI out
  = Goal: Send and receive data between Teensy and Computer software.
  = Challenge: Make an interesting instrument with two buttons.
• 2:30pm Roger Lecture - Some fun ideas and sensors to use for your projects (30 minutes)
• Finish Hands on Lab 1

Homework

• Sketch 10 ideas
• Bring your lunch so that we can have a short lunch break on Tuesday.

Tuesday

Morning 9am - 12:30pm

• Design Thoughts 1: Bill Verplank Interaction Design Sketchbook
• Design Thoughts 2: Bill Verplank Button vs Knob. Continuous vs Discrete Gestures
• Sensor Brainstorm Exercise
• Sensor Lecture 1: FSR, Bend, Photocell, Pot, Softpot, Hall Effect, Piezo, Homemade Sensors, Textiles
• Continuous Sensing in Teensy AND Scaling data on the Teensy, Mapping Data in your DAW

Afternoon 1:00pm - 5pm

• 2:30 - 4pm Present your ideas to the class.
• 4pm - 5pm: What’s inside LinnStrument and how I created it (60 minutes)

Homework

• Homework: Make a rough plan for three of your ideas

Optional Lectures

Please note that given the time constraints of this one week workshop, we can only provide a short introduction to each of these subjects and pointers to places where you can go to learn more.

• Motors, Kinetics and Mechatronics - The Basics, Further Resources and Interesting Work.
• OSC: Open Sound Control
• CAD Design
• Haptics
• Max/MSP
• Sound Synthesis
• Audio Effects