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