Time

Catalog description

Time is both fundamental and mysterious. From the 2000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism to modern atomic clocks, humans have long sought to understand temporal patterns in nature, and build mechanisms to measure, reflect and predict those patterns. The Low Res “Time” course will follow in that long tradition, reflecting on the nature of time through a seven-week project to build a novel clock (literal or metaphorical, physical or virtual). We will extend our physical computing skills by taking a closer look at microcontrollers, including internal timing hardware and functions, useful libraries, relevant sensors, and specialized electronic and electromechanical peripherals. We will look at clocks and watches as rich sources of inspiration for industrial and information design. Each student's resulting project will be a functional representation of their personal relationship to time.