Integrating Technology for Intelligent Products, Systems and Services

(c) 2011 Jun Hu, Loe Feijs

Part 1: Processing and Arduino

1. Week 1: Processing Basics

12 hours (6 class hours + 6 practice hours) + extra hours if needed.

1.1. Challenge

1.2. Skills needed to meet the challenge

1.3. Extra reading

2. Week 2: Processing Advanced

12 hours (6 class hours + 6 practice hours) + extra hours if needed.

2.1. Challenge

2.2. Skills needed to meet the challenge

2.3. Extra reading

3. Week 3: Introducing Arduino

12 hours (6 class hours + 6 practice hours) + extra hours if needed.

3.1. Challenge

3.2. Skills needed to meet the challenge

3.3. Extra reading

4. Week 4: Advanced topics

12 hours (6 class hours + 6 practice hours) + extra hours if needed.

4.1. Challenge

4.2. Skills needed to meet the challenge

4.3. Extra reading

Part 2: Meaningful Integration

(!) Challenge of Part 2: Design a family of installations which are capable of expressing certain emotions such as politeness, curiosity, playfulness with a social meaning

Integrating of technology into Ideas, Forms, User perspective and Culture (chunks I1,I2,I3,I4)

Technology pure (chunks T1,T2,T3),

Focusing technology to deliver class work to a meaningful exhibition (focusing discussions F1, F2, F3)

This is a preliminary mapping of topics to dates:

1. Week 5

1.1. Challenge

* As a reference: EEML website

1.2. Extra reading

2. Week 6

2.1. Challenge

2.2. Skills needed to meet the challenge

2.3. Extra reading

3. Week 7

3.1. Challenge

3.2. Skills needed to meet the challenge

3.3. Extra reading

4. References

Websites
  • Processing

  • Arduino

  • Books
  • Getting Started with Processing, by Casey Reas and Ben Fry. Published June 2010, O'Reilly Media. 208 pages. Paperback.

  • Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction, by Daniel Shiffman. Published August 2008, Morgan Kaufmann. 450 pages. Paperback.

  • Getting Started with Arduino, by Massimo Banzi, Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Make, Released: December 2008

  • Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects, by Tom Igoe, Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Make, Released: September 2007