Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

• Utilize introductory knowledge of Arduinos or similar microcontrollers to program gestural and data-driven control for multimedia experience design.
• Apply knowledge of a wide variety of sensor and motion tracking technologies for interactive multimedia and art applications.
• Design physical user interfaces for use by musicians, dancers, public spaces, galleries and commercial installations.
• Write and execute basic microcontroller applications that read, write and transform data from sensors and control lights, sound and motors.
• Design, build, and program custom light installations.
• Demonstrate basic competence in soldering.

Material for the course will be presented in a lecture format along side hands-on lecture/lab work.

• In and out-of-class projects reviewed and evaluated by the instructor
•  Instructor observations of student demonstrations of hands-on proficiency

• An introduction to basic textual programming
• The Arduino environment and hardware
• Sensing light with photocells
• Sensing and analyzing sound
• Motion capture, Infra-red and Ultrasonic rangefinders
• Soldering
• Light control
• Motor control
• Physical interface design