This page will contain a collection of links and learning resources to help you in this class. None of these are required readings, just helpful references. If you find any good links, or feel this page should change in some way, please let me know. I will continually be adding to and updating this page over the course of the semester.

BTU LAB Things

• BTU Website
• Laser Cutter Signup
• Lully Signup - BTU Lab 3D Printer

General Stuff

• Electronics Club is a site written by beginners but used my many as a reference, great for anyone wishing to learn about electronics or build simple projects.
• The ITP Physical Computing Site is packed with labs, write-ups, videos, and tutorials for everything p-comp (incluing both electronics and programming).
• There is a huge collection of extensive Sparkfun Tutorials on their site. Filter by tag to find relevant guides.
• ITP’s PComp Vimeo Channel has a huge collection of awesome videos by Jeff Federson and Tom Igoe.

Physical Computing

• Sparkfun Inventor Kit Guide has a huge collection of circuits and tutorials for basic circuits
• Sparkfun’s explaination of an Integrated Circuit (IC).
• Arduino’s explaination of what happens when you hit Upload.

Fabrication

• Adafruit’s awesome tutorial on Soldering
• Andy Sigler’s How to Solder Video
• Mekanizmalar.com – a great series of animations illustrating different mechanisms.

Books / Readings

Weekly readings will come from several of these texts.

• There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings by Kenn Amdahl
• Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling
• Enchanged Objects by David Rose
• Making things Talk by Tom Igoe **2nd edition is coming out soon - hold out for that!
• Talk To Me by Paola Antonelli
• Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
• The Art of Interactive Deisgn by Chris Crawford
• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
• Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
• Bill Verplank’s interaction design sketchbook, a useful introduction to what is interaction design.

Suppliers

• Sparkfun - for all things! Local pickup is available!
• Adafruit - for all things! Fun sensors, etc.. Ships from NYC.
• Digikey - huge component distributer, great for cheap electronic components or things in bulk
• Pololu - for robotics parts, motors, etc..
• McMaster-Carr - for mechanical / electrical / utility hardware