Do-It-Yourself Devices
Have you ever had a cool idea (a robot? a fingerprint access pad to your room? a moving sculpture?) that you wanted to make, but didn’t know how? They might say, “there’s an app for that™,” but if it’s beyond the screen of your prepackaged device, then there isn’t. So, what are you gonna do? Are you going to wait for some company to make it, are you going to give up, or do you want to do it yourself?
The fact is, the tools do exist to get your idea into reality — and the secret is, they’re so easy to use, that any of you can do it. In eight days, we’ll show you how.
Students will learn the basics of electronics, microcontrollers and computer programming (using the Arduino environment), and finally how to integrate the computer with external sensors (from simple switches and buttons to heat/temperature, light, gas, touch) and actuators (such as motors, lights, speakers, solenoids, valves, fans) to allow them to turn their ideas into working prototypes without having to depend on anyone else to do it for them.
Jeff Lieberman
MS, Mech. Engineering, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Jeff Lieberman explores the connections between the arts, sciences, education, passion, creativity, and the potential future of human consciousness. He hosts ‘Time Warp’ on the Discovery Channel, using technology to see beyond the limits of our normal human perception. He composes music in the duo gloobic, and has performed in Carnegie Hall. He shows technological sculptures around the world, to bring people an emotional and mystical connection with science and the universe. Having finished four degrees at MIT (BS: Physics, Math, MS: Mech. Engineering, Media Arts and Sciences), he is exploring the applications of technology to evolving and shifting human consciousness.
links:
‘Time Warp’
gloobic
Jeff Lieberman
Dr. Zoz Brooks
PhD, Robotic Life Group, Media Lab, MIT
Dr. Zoz Brooks is an engineer, artist and graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory’s Robotic Life group, where he wrote his PhD dissertation on engineering strategies for improving human-robot communication while maintaining wide research interests including rapid prototyping and robotic fabrication techniques. Since receiving his PhD he has endeavoured to make the understanding of science, robotics and rapid prototyping accessible to an international audience by co-hosting
and producing for the television shows “Prototype This!” and “Time Warp” on the Discovery Channel, and teaching as a Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Culture Technology and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at KAIST in South Korea.
links:
Zoz Brooks: Prototype This!
photo credit:
Gilles Pinault
