Greylock Arts holds an Arduino Workshop
This past Saturday Greylock Arts turned it’s gallery space into a classroom and had Tom Igoe (ITP Professor, author of Making Things Talk, and member of the Arduino Development Team), run an Arduino workshop. This is the technology that will be allowing all the lamps for the upcoming Lumens exhibit to respond to a person’s presence across towns and the internet.
Basically I built a microcontroller (with the Arduino kit) and did some basic processing that allowed it to talk and interact with my computer.
Tom was pretty great at explaining everything from basic electronics to programming code. I was way out of my comfort zone with writing code but it was very interesting and cool. Tom was, in a sense, condensing a graduate course that he teaches into a four hour workshop. To be honest, some of the information discussed went way over my head (okay, most of it went way over my head). But I was pretty excited when I was able to make my LED light blink on and off!
Marianne (co-director of Greylock Arts) paying attention and getting ready to do some wiring.
