What a long, fun day! We started with interactive designer and tutor Daniel Hirschmann by exploring electricity, the basics of circuit building (and those of use who attended Iain’s awesome Basic Electronics workshop were in the know).
Then we moved onto some programming in Arduino and getting the board to respond to stimuli and output feedback in our serial port.
Finally, we put it all together, building circuits, working with analog and digital writes and reads, playing with force resistors, light sensors, buttons, etc.
For anyone who is not familiar with all of the above, any step can be a big hurdle (let alone combining programming & circuitry in one go.)
If you attended the workshop and would like to review or revisit anything we did, Daniel will be posting notes to the workshop on his site, or you can email us for circuit images (close ups!) and code.
Special thanks to SPACE for their support and donating their fantastic front media lab.
Coming up in a few week’s time : our next exciting workshop. This time, interactive expert Daniel Hirschmann takes us through an introduction to Arduino and how to get started programming and setting up basic interactive elements. We’ll cover the basic circuitry, programming Arduino, and users various sensors and components.
The kick-off to a series of Arduino-based workshops, this first one will get you situated using fun sensors, lights, and components.
Arduino starter kits are available at Oomlout.com. Pre-order your kit today, if you would like to be able to work with your own Arduino and take your project home with you. Extra kit will be available at the workshop to borrow (and possibly purchase) for the course, if you don’t bring your own.
Horrah for another great workshop at SPACE! While a proper round-up’s to come, with pictures and video, to show you all the cool circuits, lights, and bleeps we got going, meantime here’s a link to our fantastic tutor Iain Sharp’s blog post about it.
Everything you ever wanted to know to build a circuit from scratch, but were afraid to ask!
January 23rd, 11am - 5pm
SPACE, 129 - 131 Mare Street Hackney London, E8 3RH.
Tutor Iain Sharp, a lecky pro, will guide you through the basics of how to get electricity to do what you want using a basic circuit that includes some pencil draw components.
The day will focus on how electronics work and will include experiments that demonstrate what different components do. We will use a breadboard to build the circuit, so a lot less soldering than in previous workshops!
