preLab 02 - FAR-Lab/Developing-and-Designing-Interactive-Devices GitHub Wiki

For the upcoming lab, we will be building digital timer. Read through the lab activity, and start thinking about questions that we can answer in advance, and what you might do with the basic timer code to make your own project.

  1. DESIGN READING: This is intended to help you understand what it means to design interactive devices, and to understand how to "sketch interactions": Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions, Chapter 1 & Bill Verplank Interaction Design Sketchbook <== focus on section starting on page 10!

  2. ELECTRONICS READING: Scherz Chapter 13 (Microcontrollers),

  3. IDEA GENERATION: The point of this week's lab is to figure out a cool interaction that you can make possible with the timer capabilities of the micro controller. You could make a game where people have to try to press a button more times than their friend in a certain amount of time. You could make something that sings you to sleep, and gets quieter and quieter over 3 minutes. You could make something that you hit as you start to run down a hall, and then hit again, to see how fast you can run.

Please come up with 10 ideas of what you could do. They do not need to be potential market blockbusters. They do need to be things you feel like doing next week. Draw sketches with each of your ideas.