UBC, Vancouver, August 12-17 2011, camille.moussette@dh.umu.se

Download the course plan in PDF format: 2011.ubc.sketching.haptics.v4.pdf updated

Oliver Schneider, Brian Gleeson, Diane Tam, Jessica Dawson, Juliette Link, Anna Macaranas (SFU), Vincent Levesque, Scott Newson, Karon MacLean

Flickr set: Sketching Haptics workshop @ UBC 2011. Share you pictures and videos if possible. Thanks!

• H.O.T, Hold On Tight, Juliette & Jessica
• Haptic Lock, Anna & Oliver
• Virtual Ball-in-a-Box, Diane & Brian

• Introduction, slides
• Sketching levels, slides
• Assignments 1 + 2, pdf
• Keywords (inspiration for assignment #1), pdf
• Introduction to Arduino, slides
• Solderless breadboard, image inside + detailed explanation
• Soldering tutorial: How and why to solder correctly from Curious Inventor, Soldering 101 from Sparkfun,

• Microsoft Research presentation (slides not publicly available at this point)
• Motors and actuators, Making Things Move book
• Dynamic Materials, http://transmaterial.net, http://uidprojects.se/materials
• Analog sensors, 3 pins, 2 pins with step-up/step-down circuit, visualizing sensor data in Processing, wiki page
• Camille's Adafruit Motor Shield Commander, control motors + servos by sending serial commands, Arduino code, Processing code

Converting between types of motion, table 8.1, page 248, Making Things Move, Dustyn Roberts

• Design presentation, slides 2011.ubc.day3.design.pdf, Benjamin Lopez's IxD degree project report
• Accelerometer (adxl335) with Arduino, tutorial on Bildr

• Motor Shields, multiple models but similar names!!!
• Adafruit Motor shield (model used during the workshop), DC motors, steppers and servos with dedicated library
• Sparfun Ardumoto Motor shield (6 units available @ SPIN), simpler but lacking stepper and servo support, code sample
• Arduino Motor shield older board, intended use with DC motors and encoders

• delay() in Arduino, how to bypass, code + associated circuit
• interrupt in Arduino, attachInterrupt
• VMusic2, mp3 player controlled by Arduino, tutorial

Previous instances of this workshop:

• Umeå Institute of Design, October 2010, wiki page with video reports, photos and videos on Flickr
• Chalmers University, November 2010, photos and videos on Flickr

• Arduino (make sure you have the latest 0022 version), http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
• Adafruit Motor shield, http://www.adafruit.com/products/81, Arduino library, tutorial + code example
• NewSoftSerial library, http://arduiniana.org/libraries/newsoftserial
• Messenger library, version 1.5, http://arduino.cc/playground/Code/Messenger, tutorial + code examples
• Using third-party libraries with Arduino

• Processing, version 1.5.1, http://processing.org/download
• Timeline Tool for Processing, http://www.drifkin.net/timeline
• controlP5, GUI library for Processing, http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5/

• Servo motors, http://www.societyofrobots.com/actuators_servos.shtml
• Miga motors http://www.migamotors.com, actuators using shape memory alloy
• Pololu http://www.pololu.com, motors, controllers and kits
• Servo City http://www.servocity.com, online store with numerous servos, brackets and accessories
• Haptuator from Tactile Labs, http://www.tactilelabs.com/main/products/haptuator

• KMODDL, Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library, http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu and http://kmoddl.org
• Kinetic Design, article on Core77.com by Ben Hopson
• Convertibles projects, kinetic design, Umeå Institute of Design + Ben Hopson
• Interaction Design introduction by Bill Verplank, as presented in Bill Moggridge's Designing Interactions book.