Technology Art and Sound by Design Course Schedule

Week of	Comments	Tuesday Class	Thursday Class	Assignment (due on Thursday of the following week)	Student pairings	Guru
Jan 16	Part I: Learning the materials introduction	Course overview: syllabus, Pd, the Logochip, demos	Introduction: wiki, wordpress, photobucket, uploading files, mailing list notes 011906	add yourself to class mailing list establish web page and add link to wiki write short final project proposal, submit to class mailing list and add to web page install Pd and make sure it runs, or go to the ECE lab and confirm that you can log in and run Pd join Dustin Parker's mailing list (email info@dustinparker.com) read Chris Shull reviews, to prepare for Tuesday class	none for week 1	Web, Blogging, and Software Installation:
Jan 23	Pd	Chris Shull: How to review an art or music event. Materials:Event Review #1 Event Review #2 Event Review #3	Intro to Pd: Intro to Pd	week of January 30, including Pd: "Hello World"	Student Pairings	Pd: Matt's wisdom
Jan 30	Logochip	Intro to Pd pt. II	local techno-artist: Tom McGuire	week of February 6, including Pd: "How are you, World"	Student Pairings	Pd: Matt's wisdom
Feb 6	Shop Training	Guest: Barry Badgett at the wood shop in Henrion Hall. Meet at B102 at 11 in Duerkson (where we've been meeting) and ArtMonkey will lead you over.	Guest: Barry Badgett at the wood shop in Henrion Hall.	Make something, anything using some of the shop equipment you are getting trained on. Start looking through the LogoChip material: Getting Started with LogoChips. More technical stuff about the logochip is here: LogoChip language reference	Student Pairings	The Shop: Artmonkey's construction wisdom
Feb 13	Analog Electronics, Final projects	Ohm's law, resistors, voltage dividers, volts, amps and current, resistance and ohms	Class discussion of final projects, programming Logochip, making cables	due by Tuesday February 21: A Woman's Mind (Andrea), The Family (Joey, Chris, TJ), If Walls Could Talk (Scott, Jason), Persuasion (Shawn, Danielle), we need descriptions of these projects on blogs with added links on the wiki start page where the other final projec ts are listed with links. have all parts for a Logochip kit i.e. programmed Logochip, all circuit parts including battery holder, serial cable with soldered ends in your possession. Get whatever you are missing during office hours on Monday at 3:30 in DFAC C6. if you have your own computer, install the Logochip software and, if necessary, the java virtual machine. Furthe r directions are on page 26-27 of the Getting Started with Logochips document. Make sure the software runs successfully. Print the Getting Started with Logochips document as well as [[http://www.wellesley.edu/Physics/Rberg/logochip/distribution/LogoChipLogoLangRef20.pdf\|The Logochip reference manual]]. if your computer doesn't have a serial port, get a USB <-> serial adapter and install the necessary drivers to get it to work catch up on blog entries, old Pd assignments, and incompleted student pairings.	no more student pairing
Feb 20	The Logochip	Class in Wallace 331: Build your Logochip kit. If you have a laptop, bring it with the Logochip software installed, configured, and running	Programming the Logochip class notes Feb 02, '06	week of February 27, including Logochip: "Hello World" and "Hello Final Project"		Muaz's LogoChip CrashCourse
Feb 27	Sensors, LEDs	3 demos with explanations: Logochip with ultrasonic sensor, triggering sound, controlling 3 digit LED	Tom McGuire: workshop class	week of March 6
Mar 6	Midterm marks the beginning of: Part II: Building the Project	Final project discussion in Duerkson Room B102	Workshop I: get together in groups and work on final projects	outline of implementation of final project idea. What sensors will you use? How will you network them? What will they trigger? What software must be written? What will it do? Write this up, submit to the class disccussion list, upload to the wiki [[w eek of March 13\|here]], and link to it from your blog.
Mar 13	Workshop week for final projects	Workshop II: get together in groups and work on final projects	Workshop III: get together in groups and work on final projects
Mar 20	Spring Break
Mar 27	Workshops and Demos	Workshop IV: get together in groups and work on final projects	Land of Misfit Toys I: Each group takes 5-10 minutes demonstrating both the artistic component (diagram or part of project built) and technological component (with code online). Put all possible mat'ls online so you can show them in class with the l ap top compute r and project provided. If you don't know where to put them, put them here
Apr 3	Workshops, Demos, Planning	Land of Misfit Toys II: wrap up group demos. Shift Space Planning: getting into the building, plaques, other logistics.	Workshop V
Apr 10	ShiftSpace Prep, Project review, Workshops	Meet at Shift Space to prepare space for April 28th	Duerkson B103 1/2 half: blog/wiki review I for each project
Apr 17	Project review, Workshops	blog/wiki review II, Workshop VI	Workshop VII
Apr 24	April 28, final projects at ShiftSpace	Workshop VIII at Shift Space. Chris Shull and photographer from Wichita Eagle will also be there	Mandatory class at Shift Space: logistics for Final Friday exhibit the next day.
May 1	Art Critiques, class evaluation	Art Critique I at Shift Space: Barry Badget will critique each art piece with the class	Class in Duerkson B103: SPTE Evaluations. *Please show up for this*
May 8	Art Critique conclusion	No class	Art Critique II at Shift Space: Barry Badget will finish critiquing each art piece with the class. Friday May 12: Blogs must be complete and ready for evaluation