##SFPC Physical Computing - Fall 2015 Class at School for Poetic Computation, Fall 2015. Class covers functional skills of working with analog and logic-driven electronics, sensors, microcontrollers.

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##09/24 -- SESSION 1 (DOUBLE)

###Analog electricity concepts

Preparation: Chapters 1-6, Code by Charles Petzold: http://learning.caitlinmorris.net/sfpc/CharlesPetzold_Code.pdf

Topics:

• Electricity overview (voltage, resistance, current, Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, circuit diagrams)
• Electrical tangibles: Breadboards and simple components
• Basic circuits with LEDs, resistors, capacitors
• Circuit wiring: parallel and series
• Circuitry with extra components: buttons, switches, and potentiometers
• Soldering and organizing breadboards / perf boards

##10/15 -- SESSION 2

###Intro to microcontrollers with Arduino

Topics:

• Intro to the Arduino IDE (arduino.cc)
• Anatomy of the microcontroller
• Analog and digital signals
• LED blink exercise
• Digital and analog signals, pulse width modulation (PWM)

##10/16 -- SESSION 3

###Debugging, creating logic-based behavior

Topics:

• Serial debugging and reading a data stream
• Input with buttons, potentiometers

Exercise: building an electrical system (robot / electrical poem) with a personality

##10/29 -- SESSION 4

###Complex inputs

Topics:

• Debouncing and signal smoothing
• Reading from different sensor types
• Shift registers

##10/30 -- SESSION 5

###Outputs

Topics:

• Motors and motion
• Serial communication to software

##FURTHER

TBD based on student preference!