Aki Sasamoto, a Whitney Biennial artist and co-director of Culture Push, ran two events at which I got to show people how to make and race mousetrap powered cars. The first was a DOING workshop where I taught a small
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Category: Teaching
Why I love teaching at ITP and Shel Silverstein
We’re more than half way through semester at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU that I teach at – a two year graduate program that has been described as art school for engineers, and engineering school for artists. I’ve
Continue readingRobotic Arm class at 3rd Ward
My awesome friend Stefani Bardin, who was the new Director of Education at 3rd Ward, invited me to teach a new class there and this is what we came up with: Here are some steps we’ll be taking in class
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Robotic Arm in Processing
I’ve been doing some pretty heavy reading and writing for the last few days, so I took some time “off” this afternoon to work on a mini project that I had been thinking of for awhile. I wanted to write
Continue readingSeeing Sensors: How to visualize and save Arduino-sensed data
Sometimes when you’re prototyping a project it’s nice to see what’s going on with your sensors or variables in your code. Sure you can watch analogRead() values scroll at warp speed on your Arduino Serial Monitor, but what if you
Continue readingAwarded Adjunct Faculty Professional Development Grant
One of the perks of being an adjunct at NYU is access to a professional development fund to support activities like attendance at an academic conference, meeting or other relevant professional development activity. I applied for the maximum of $1,000
Continue readingGuest crit at SVA’s first physical computing class
I spent the afternoon at the School of Visual Arts sitting in on final project presentations for the Introduction to Physical Computing class. It’s the very first year of the Interaction Design MFA program, and my friend and former student
Continue readingRobots and social media
I got a LinkedIn update emailed to me today, and it looks like one of my former students at NYU has started a company called SocialBomb, Inc. and is the CEO! So I go to check out their website, and
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