Microcontroller Workshop

Interactive Textiles: It’s Alive

Sensors, outputs, emergent

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Teaching Team

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Workshop Overview

• Found Projects
• Intermission 1: The Computer
• Soldering: realizing interfaces
• Blinking as A Foundation: CircuitPlayground Express
  • Connect
  • Get our code
  • The MuEditor
  • Run it
  • What Happens
• Intermission 2: Scale
• The Structure of Code: CircuitPython
  • Text
  • Visual
  • No semicolons:
  • CircuitPython
  • Structure (of a python program)
• blink: The archetype, and the wrong way.
  • Structure:
  • Make some notes about:
  • Play with it
  • Preserve your changes
• Intermission 3. The Most Important Thing
  • Techniques
• blink_neo: It’s a setup, and the wrong way again
• Why It’s The Wrong Way: sleep() is evil.
  • Why it is wrong
  • The Solution
  • An External LED
  • Other outputs
• Inputs
  • Touch Pads (“capacitive touch”)
  • Switch (on/off)
• Combination logic
• Integration
  • Networking
• That Textile
• The Big Blob

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Downloads

• Mu Editor
• Workshop Handout