Materials:
Paper and fabric of various weights

Resources:
How-To: Work with Shape-Memory Alloy
(FYI we will be working with .006 flexinol)
SMA meets Smocking
More Physical Than Computing, Research on SMAs

Resources:
Building a heat controlling circuit
Painted Displays
4-channel color changing textile

Tools you need:
Sound recording module, old (working) pair of headphones, or a sound greeting card

Resources:
These are only a few of the vast resources – email me if you find more to include!
Sound amplifying circuits
Sound fabric

Slides from previous semester

Per our decision last class, we are taking a new approach rather than the traditional “I talk, You make.” Instead, I will introduce the heat-controlling circuit we will be working with then you will break out into interest groups: sound, heat + inks, and motion. You can dive deep into one or get a smattering of all three.

Here’s what you need to do before next class:
1) Look into the resources for the output you would like to learn:

+ SOUND
+ HEAT+INKS
+ MOTION

2) Bring the following materials to class in addition to your regular materials:
+ SOUND: Recording module from Radioshack, an old (working) pair of headphones, or a sound greeting card.
+ INKS: Paint brushes
Optional: Small trays for mixing/storing paint, different types of binders, inks, and paint to mix with the thermochromic
+ ALL: Paper and fabric of various weights

Below is your design brief for the next two classes. You will submit a homework assignment due 11/24 based on this brief:

Design a tool that creates, saves, deletes, or alters memories. Imagine a possible or potential future in which your tool exists and who it’s users are.

Memories define who we are. They can be impressions, bytes of data, feelings, objects, events, synapse firings. They can be individual or collective. Some of us have perfect memories, while others suffer from crippling degenerative diseases. They can be multi sensorial – based in touch, sound, motion, sight, and smell. They can grow stronger, weaker, or distorted with time.

For thousands of years, we have recorded our memories in various craft forms, using textiles, fibers, paper, wood, clay, etc as our dominant materials. With the rise of digital technologies, we now embed them in pixels and polymers, preserving them by the terabyte. For the most part, our memories are devoid of materiality. This will only increase as time goes on…

Week7_Code_Examples

GETTING STARTED:
Here is the VERY HELPFUL getting started tutorial for working with the ATtiny.

INCLUDED:
Code and schematics for each
Capacitive Sensing
1) CapSense_Arduino_with_LED
Use this with Arduino

2) CapSense_ATTiny
Use this with the ATtiny

3) CapSense_ATTiny_SoftwareSerial
Use this to read sensor values from ATtiny. Here is a helpful tutorial.

Human Circuit
1) HumanCircuit_with_Arduino_LED
Use this with Arduino. Can adapt to ATtiny

2) Touch_ATtiny_Mellis
Use this with ATtiny. Has been finicky for some. Here is the documentation.

New resource for paper electronic construction!

For any of you interested in weaving, here is the loom file and here are some basic instructions to get you started.