THE WORKSHOP IS FULL

TIME AND LOCATION
Time: Tuesday April 12 and April 19 – 11am -> 2pm
Location: East Duke Building, Room 108

INSTRUCTOR
Olivier Perriquet

DESCRIPTION
The workshop is an introduction to Arduino and DIY electronics. Arduino is an
open-source electronics prototyping environment widely used in the art
community to design interactive objects or systems sensitive and responsive to
the analog world. Since a few years, building electronic interactive systems
has become quite accessible and requieres only reduced technical skills: the
aim of the workshop is mainly to « demystify » these technologies and to learn
the basics in a lively atmosphere. Each participant will build a simple
machine that sends and receives signals. All the machines will eventually
interact in a single communicative system, inspired from Chinese Whispers.
Errors typically accumulate through retelling, noise in the transmission
channels, miss-communication and the probable oddness of the machines may add
to the experience and set the ground for exploring some key concepts of
cybernetics, such as feedback mechanisms and order from noise.

BOOKS & ONLINE RESSOURCES
official arduino website (including many resources, references and tutorials)
http://www.arduino.cc
technical programming ref. + basics in electronics (free download)
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/arduino-programming-notebook/3524028

REQUIEREMENTS
A laptop running OS X, Windows, or Linux with a USB port

PREREQUISITES
A basic knowledge of programming and/or electronics is helpful but not
necessary.
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Oivier Perriquet
Visiting artist – Department of Visual Studies
Smith Warehouse, Bay 11, Rm 240
Duke University – Durham, NC – USA
+1-919-308-6496 – http://cesium-133.net

Sponsored by Information Science + Information Studies and the Visual Studies Initiative