Arduino, Physical Computing and Mass Participation

87 Pages·2011·24.71 MB·English

Monday, October 31, 2011
Arduino, Physical Computing,
and Mass Participation
Tom Igoe
Co-founder, Arduino;
ITP
Tisch School of the Arts
NYU
Monday, October 31, 2011
Most of the talks I give feature Arduino only peripherally, and I’ve never talked in public about how I
came to join the team. So I want to share a bit about how that happened, and how it relates to my day
job and my ideals.
Monday, October 31, 2011
I teach at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York
University. It’s a very convivial place.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Hands-on learning about technology is central to what we do. We encourage active learning through
participation in making media and the technologies that support it.
Monday, October 31, 2011
It started with the Porta-Pak camera. Red Burns, our founder (a Canadian), saw in it the possibility that
the general public would be able to participate in the creation of media, not just consume it.
Red Burns
(actual media guru)
(also: Canadian)
Monday, October 31, 2011
It started with the Porta-Pak camera. Red Burns, our founder (a Canadian), saw in it the possibility that
the general public would be able to participate in the creation of media, not just consume it.
1979
Alternate Media Center
Monday, October 31, 2011
The program began in 1979 as the Alternate Media Center. Red wanted to empower non-technologists
by giving them direct experience with using and developing new technologies. They wouldn’t just be
working with technologists, they would doing the development themselves. That’s been our mission all
along.
Monday, October 31, 2011
I’m responsible for the physical computing area at ITP. To explain that in a nutshell:
Christina Goodness
The Big Bounce
Monday, October 31, 2011
These people are using a computer to make music (two computers, actually) but
they’re being a lot more spontaneous than your typical computer user. To make this
possible, you have to change your view of computers.
How We See the Computer
Monday, October 31, 2011