Detailed course resources available at MIT Open Courseware.

I co-led a workshop about designing, building, and prototyping electronics devices and experiences during MIT’s IAP with Kyle Keane, Mark Vrablic and Abhinav Gandhi. No previous experience with programming or electronics was required. Topics covered included micro-controller programming using Arduino, collaborative software development using GitHub, solder-less electronics prototyping, electronic sensors, rapid prototyping, and small team management. Sponsored by MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Materials Science and Engineering and Craig Carter, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering.

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9-day hands-on workshop about collaboration, design, and electronics prototyping. No previous experience with computer programming or electronics is required. Beginning students will be taught everything they need to know and advanced students will be challenged to learn new skills. Participants will work in small teams to design and build electronics projects using open-source microprocessors. Team projects are completely open-ended and designed by participants, past projects have included: an internet-connected weather simulation station, a giant LED billboard, and a CNC drawing machine. Participants will complete three guided projects in order to learn the fundamentals and will then break into small teams to complete a one-day mini-project of their choosing. After the mini-project, participants will break into new teams that will each get $250 and four days to design, plan, and build a custom project of their choice. On the last day of the course, students will present their projects in public exhibition and have the chance to win a prize for crowd favorite. Participants will learn about microcontroller programming using Arduino, collaborative software development using GitHub, solderless electronics prototyping, electronic sensors, rapid prototyping, and small team management.

Detailed course resources available at MIT Open Courseware.

I co-led a workshop about designing, building, and publishing simple educational video-games during MIT’s IAP with Kyle Keane, Mark Vrablic and Abhinav Gandhi. No previous experience with computer programming or video-game design was required. Topics covered included collaboration, video game design, Unity programming, gesture handling using the Microsoft Kinect, 3D digital object creation and small team management. Sponsored by MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Materials Science and Engineering and Craig Carter, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering.

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9-day hands-on workshop about designing, building, and publishing simple educational video-games. No previous experience with computer programming or video-game design is required. Beginning students will be taught everything they need to know, and advanced students will be challenged to learn new skills. Participants will work in small teams to design, build, and publish video-games that will be shared in a large public exhibition. Team projects are open-ended and designed by participants. Examples include: a collection of bouncing balls that can be sped up or slowed down using hand gestures, a virtual reality laboratory where kids can perform experiments, and crowdsourcing interface for describing scientific graphics for blind students. Participants will complete guided projects in order to learn the fundamentals and will then break into small teams to complete a one-day mini-project of their choosing. Participants will then break into new teams that will have four days to design, plan, and build a custom project of their choice. On the last day, students will present their projects in a public exhibition and have the chance to win a prize for “crowd favorite”. Participants will learn about video-game creation using the Unity game engine, collaborative software development using GitHub, gesture handling using the Microsoft Kinect, 3D digital object creation, video-game design, and small team management.

I co-led an 8 day workshop during MIT’s IAP 2016 called “Collaborative Design with Arduino” along with Kyle Keane and Mark Vrablic. Continue reading →

Learn how to articulate and communicate your ideas through the medium of software code. Topics include culture & technology, social networks, design as social practice, and data visualization.

I developed the course Coding Dynamic Experiences for the MassArt Continuing Education department in the Summer of 2015. The course is designed to teach the fundamentals of programming in the context of designed interactive experiences. Course website summer 2015.

Student Work Samples (Summer 2015)

Raphael Weikart, Assignment #1

Ginnie Hsu, Assignment #1

Clapperton Mavhunga, Assignment #1

Sejal Patel, Assignment #1

Slides with presenter notes from the talk
Code and Creativity talk MIT IAP (pdf ~16mb)

At the end of the talk I live coded in Processing, here is an animated gif of the result

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