8 - Untoolkit: Electronic Outputs
26 March - 01 April 2020
THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENTS
Assignment 0 - Zine with the entire group
Produce a class zine on the RISO printer together, 2 people will be editors this week. Individual contributions in the form of zine spreads.
Zine prompt:
"In a 'post-post-it' society, I wonder what the ultimate design toolkit to train the 21st century designer could be. Rather than the usual canvases or user journey maps, this toolkit would feature a set of basic design exercises that help everyone, not only design students, to make things that move, think, communicate, sense, see, compute or augment. These exercises would help students to control technology, to assertively own it as a material, a tool, and a key factor influencing society today." - Serena Cangiano
Reflect on your experience in the minor thus far. Can you link this to the readings of this week?
This week the zine will be an ultimate design toolkit. Think, create, design an exercise that would be part of this ultimate design toolkit, Cangiano mentions. Reflect on this exercise, why did you choose this, how is it linked to the minor and to this weeks reading.
Zine this week: http://summerdanoe.nl/zine/
Assignment 1 - individual/duo
Build an electronic circuit with at least one input (made by you!) and one actuator.
Program a microcontroller in the Arduino IDE to control your actuator with the input
Design an output swatch of 10x10cm that is archive worthy. How can you make hardware look interesting/appealing/evocative? Use all the techniques you learned in previous weeks.
Document the design, building, debugging and working results step by step
Testing and prepping
Testing the LED
The first thing I wanted to test with the NodeMCU and my LED is if my LED really worked. So I attached the LED to my NodeMCU and the breadboard and run an empty Arduino code:
LED blink
Now I'll make a code which will let the LED blink.
I conncect everything like this:
Then I ran this code:
And it worked!
LED blink with a button
Now I'll connect the button and LED to the NodeMCU board. I'll send some information to the Serial so I know that the button will respond.
I tried out his code and my LED went on when I pushed the button:
Reading Resistive Sensors - Light sensor
You can find my new try out here:
Connecting a RGB LED with a button
This worked perfectly after some help form Mickey. Make sure you attatch the button to the D6.
I got really inspired by this code and a YouTube video of Lisa Spark I saw earlier. I want to try if I can add a switch sensor to the RGB LED with this code.
I got an idea for my output swatch:
I want to have one layer on top with a soft fabric, which people want to touch. And if they touch it the switch goes on or light sensor gets more dark and the RGB LED will turn on.
Process to the final output swatch
Light sensor and RGB LED
I am trying to install a simple LED with the LDR sensor on this page:
Now I'll try it again but not with a normal LED, but with a RGB LED.
I have used my own code, I had made a few years ago when I had to work with a LDR sensor and a RGB LED. I think the code is a little bit more simple and more easy in use for the simple swatch I want to make.
I used the values less or equal to 700 and less or equal to 960.
PHOTO
The code works so I am very happy about that. But now I want to change the concept. So when it gets darker the LED will become blue and I want the normal state of the LED to be green.
Now I used this code:
Now I can start making an output swatch.
Output swatch
Go to this page to see the final output swatch I made:
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