Arduino Workshop

Rob Canning is a composer and a network artist. His instrumental works have been performed and commissioned by ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, the Con Tempo string quartet, the RTE National Chamber Choir of Ireland and Ensemble Concorde amongst others.His sound and network installations have been commissioned by and located in The National Library of Ireland and The Saison Poetry Library (Southbank Center, London) as well as many other site-specific, gallery and residency based showings.

Arduino is a solitary board microcontroller to make utilizing gadgets within multidisciplinary ventures more receptive. The fittings comprises of an open-source equipment board outlined around a 8-bit Atmel Avr microcontroller, or a 32-digit Atmel Arm. The programming comprises of a standard customizing dialect compiler and a boot loader that executes on the microcontroller.
Arduino sheets might be obtained preassembled or as do-it-yourself units. Equipment plan data is accessible for the individuals who might want to amass an Arduino by hand.

CANNING
INTRODUCED
US TO THE
ARDUINO BOARD

Part of our two day workshop with Rob Canning we were acquainted with programming Arduino. We were guided through the rudiments of utilizing Arduino. As sets we are guided to do a standout amongst the most essentials utilization of the Arduino Uno, making Led lights blink on and off.

Rob then went onto introduce us to a potentiometer. A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding contact that structures a flexible voltage divider. If two terminals are utilized, one end and the wiper, it goes about as a variable resistor. Potentiometers are normally used to control electrical gadgets, for example, volume controls on sound supplies. Potentiometers worked by a system could be utilized as position transducers.

In this situation the potentiometer was used to vary and control the speed of blink within the two LEDS as shown above. In order to change the frequence you simply twist the screw of the potentiometer, depending on which way you twist it the frequency will either speed up or slown down. To view video evidence of my work simply click on the 'mov' icon in this text box and download the video.

Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format, and is free and open-source software.

Inkscape has sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Xara Xtreme. It can import and export various file formats, including SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, PS and PNG.

Our second task was to produce a case design for a laser cut print. We used the website 'Makercase' to produce the frame (net) and layout of the box.

After creating my box on the site above I transferred the net on to Ink Scape. Inkscape is an extremely useful software. The magnificent thing about open source programming like Inkscape is the manner by which we are energized as clients, particularly those acquainted with coding to ask for a characteristic that you like, or help with the advancement of the programme. I needed to relearn a few things that contrast from the way Illustrator works however generally speaking, yet it didn't take me extremely long.

Canning taught us about Floss + Art. Floss+art discriminatingly thinks about the developing relationship between Free Software belief system, open content and computerized craft. It gives a perspective onto the social, political and monetary myths and substances.

As we all know, Copyright is a legitimate notion, utilized by most administrations to give the designer/creator restrictive rights to its work with respect to appropriation and use. This is constrained between a brief time of opportunity to "ensure" the originator and empowering them to monetarily uphold themselves. This additionally gives them rights for their work to be credited, to confirm if their work could be adjusts to different structures, and avoid others from monetarily profiting from their work. Yet, Copyright has descended hard on every last one of us as planners. It has restricted our work, which brought on the presence of Copyleft.

Copyleft is utilizing copyright law as a part of the complete inverse way, which is to offer the right to circulate and remix work to anybody with the expectation that that individual decides to do the same. As it were, Copyleft is a strategy that permits imaginative work to be openly altered by any individual who has likewise received the same Copyleft Attitude.