Lecture at the Mutating Media symposium in October of 2008, held at favorite Gent spot (after Ingrid and Bram’s pad of course): Vooruit. This symposium of a part of Almost Cinema 2008.
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Physical Computing Workshop Vooruit@Gent – Day 3
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Working with Motors:
1. Our Simple Voltage Amplification Circuit
2. Graphical Resistance Calculator
3. Transistor and Diode basics
4. Our TIP122 voltage amplifier
Physical Computing Workshop Vooruit@Gent – Day 2
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More interfaces:
Excellent stepper motor:
Stepper Motor
Source for premade driver boards:
Futurlec Electronics (Thailand)
Physical Computing Workshop Vooruit@Gent – Day 1
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Basic Electronics Resources
Tom Igoe – Understanding Electricity
Electronics Calculator (Resistance, Voltage, Amps, etc.)
General Resources
Tom Igoe’s Physical Computing Site
STEIM (Netherlands Interactivity Center)
Hardware Hacking
Instructables (DIY everything)
Sensors
CNMAT’s Gestural Controller Page
ITP (Tom Igoe) Sensor Reports – plus implementation code for PIC microcontrollers
Protolab Sensor Tutorial – uses arduino microcontrollers for examples
Light Sensing Resistor Circuit
Actuators
Interfaces
Tom Igoe – Microcontroller Overview
Arduino
Learning Electronics with the Arduino
Software
iShowU (documentation software)
Electronics Retailers and Surplus
All Electronics (surplus electronics)
Digikey (retail general electronics)
Electronics Goldmine (surplus electronics)
Futurlec (dc power boards, etc.)
Jameco (retail general electronics)
Mouser (retail general electronics)
Radio Shack (retail general electronics)