Physical Computing Resources

General Resources

Electronics Reference Materia

• IAD WIki - All essential material for Physical Computing
• Sparkfun Electricity Basics - Great video series on the basics of electricity. 
• Elektronik Compendium – Excellent explanations of electronics (Deutsch)
• All about circuits -  In-depth explanations of electricity, from basic to advanced topics
• Tom Igoe – Many good explanations of basics
• Find Chips – The place to find datasheets for components 

Websites

• hackaday - A news site for interesting "hacking" projects. A source of inspiration and new developments
• ITP – The very good documentation from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU
• makezine.com – A magazine for hobbyist, with many Arduino projects
• JeeLabs – Several interesting projects from Jean-Claude Wippler.

Hardware

• Arduino Boards – An overview of all Arduino boards 
• raspberrypi - A small, cheap, pc computer suitable for hardware prototyping 
• Sparkfun –  Electronic prototyping designer/manufacturer with many tutorials. 
• Adafruit – Electronic prototyping designer/manufacturer with many tutorials. 

Software

• Arduino – The Arduino Website. Important for this course!
• Processing – Processing Website with some examples for working with Arduino
• Fritzing – Software visualising and prototyping circuits. 
• CoolTerm – Helpful program for windows and mac for reading and writing over serial ports. 
• tinkercad circuits - A simple tool to design and test circuits online  
• Eagle CAD - A professional but relatively easy program for PCB design
• https://shiftr.io - An online platform for IOT prototyping 

Shopping

• Pusterla – The Zurich electronics shop 
• Conrad – Hobby and Electronics. A physical shop in Dietlikon
• play-zone.ch - Swiss-based hobby and electronic distributer 
• Watterott – German hobby and electronic distributer
• Farnell – Big distributer. Has almost everything. 
• Distrelec – Big distributer. Has almost everything. 
• Digi-Key – Big distributer. Has almost everything. 
• Mouser –  Big distributer. Has almost everything. 

Films

• The Machine That Changed The World (1992) – Documentary on intelligent machines and the start of computer technology.
• Shock and Awe  – BBC Documentary

Literature References

 

Embodied Interaction Design

• Seeking a Foundation for Context Aware Computing – Paul Dourish (2001)
• The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman (1988)
• Emotional Design – Donald Norman (2003)

Physical Computing

• Physical Computing – Tom Igoe (2004)
• Make: Electronics – Charles Patt (2010)
• Getting Started with Arduino – Massimo Banzi (2008)
• Getting started in Electronics – Forrest M. Mims (1983)
• Arduino Cookbook – Michael Margolis (2011)
• Programming Interactivity – Joshua Noble (2009)
• Making Things Talk – Tom Igoe (2011

Ubiquitous Computing

• Divining a Digital Future … – Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell (2011)

Interactive Objects

• Talk To Me Essay – Paola Antonellis Essay für die “Talk To Me” Ausstellung
• Design Noir: The secret Life of Electronic Objects – Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby (2001)

Project Examples 

Wireless

• Esper Domino von Jarashi Suki – Per Funk verbundene Domino-Steine
• Spotify Player von Jordi Parra – RFID & Online Musik
• BakerTweet von Poke – Wann gibt es frische Gipfeli?

Sound

• Knot(e) von Alain Bellet, Gael Hugo, Christophe Guignard – Reaktives Sound Seil
• Soundmachines von The Product – Plattenspieler
• Collaborative Instrument von Matt West – Ein elektronisches Instrument
• Dada Box von Jifei Ou – Remix von Sätzen
• Fine Collection of Curious Sound Objects von Georg Reil und Kathy Scheuring – Kurios.
• C60 von IDEO Labs – RFiD gesteuerter Plattenspieler
• AIfSoeT von Dennis Paul – Ein Instrument für die Sonifizierung alltäglicher Dinge

Kinetik

• Point Cloud von James Lang – Durch Servos gesteuerte kinetische Figur
• Telepresent Water von David Bowen – Telepräsenz von Naturgewalten
• Particles von Daito Manage und Motor Ishibashi – Illuminierte Murmelbahn
• One Hundred and Eight von Nils Völker – Plastiktüten als Display
• Olars von Lars Marcus Vedeler – Kinetische Skulpturen
• Piano Gloves von Scott Garner – Klavier spielen Überall
• Kinetische Skulptur von Art+Com – Skulpturen durch Kugeln
• Duality von Art+Com – Interaktiver Boden
• Newton’s Cradle von Yasutoki Kariya – Pendel
• Symphonie Cinétique von ART & COM
• Cubepix von Glassworks Barcelona
• Vincent & Emily von Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl
• Resinance von CAAD

Taktil

• The Poking Machine von Jasper van Loenen and Bartholomäus Traubeck – Kleines taktiles Device
• Tagible von Georg Reil und Christoph Döring – Display = Eingabe = Ausgabe
• Knock Knock von Khalil Klouche
• Tactilu von panGenerator

• http://www.iaacblog.com/programs/tangible-robot/

  https://hackaday.com/2017/02/17/zooids-swarm-user-interface/

  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d0f6/2ba87cd085dee35aab8bb6f2d7a09c589a11.pdf?_ga=2.193369967.399495344.1596011808-1368847094.1596011808

  https://github.com/ShapeLab/SwarmUI

Experiment

• Computerless Arduino von Teague Labs – Arduino ohne Computer
• Glassified Von Fluid Interfaces Group – Augmented Lineal
• The Chime von Marc de Pape
• The Chime von Marc de Pape

Game

• Pixelate von Sures Kumar und Lana Porter – Elektronisch Essen