Sensing the City

Catalog description

This course will teach you to design and build sensing installations that engage with real-time urban environmental stimuli. Using the Arduino microcontroller as a prototyping platform, you will write code and wire circuits, learn to select and implement available sensors, and generate raw environmental data. You will populate databases and interpret data streams, and then create responsive urban interventions. Following the model of hackerspaces around the globe, we will collaboratively pose problems and find solutions, teaching and learning from one another. No background in coding or electronics is required, but a desire to learn is absolutely necessary. Also, this course is hands-on. You are a maker! Be prepared to build, design, and create.