Resources
Below are some additional resources to help with troubleshooting, finding materials and diving into the theory of designing tech for the body.
NYU LABS
General P-Comp Tutorials and Forums:
- Adafruit
- Arduino
- https://idmnyu.github.io/BlinkingBeeping/cheatsheet.html
- https://idmnyu.github.io/BlinkingBeeping/switches.html
- https://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/
- NYU Library Link to “Making Things Move”
- NYU library link to “Arduino Cookbook”
- http://makezine.com/
- http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/projects/category/arduino/
- https://geargenerator.com/
P-comp Supplies and Hardware:
- https://www.adafruit.com/ (local!)
- https://www.sparkfun.com/
- https://www.digikey.com/
- https://www.jameco.com/
- https://www.hansonrobotics.com/
- https://www.robotshop.com/
- https://www.mcmaster.com/ (local!)
- https://www.servocity.com/
- http://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/brooklyn.aspx (local!)
- https://tinkersphere.com/ (local!)
- Seeed Studio
Wearables inspiration:
Wearable Specific tutorials:
- http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/
- http://www.instructables.com/id/Beginning-Soft-Circuits/
- https://urbanarmor.org/
Soft Robot Tool Kit:
IoT:
- https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/esp8266wifi/readme.html
- https://www.geekstips.com/category/internet-of-things/
- https://randomnerdtutorials.com/
Color
Hacking Existing Consumer Electronics:
- https://hackaday.io/project/158256-hoverbot
- https://hackingroomba.com/
- https://www.tested.com/tech/robots/453965-magic-marker-art-kinect-10-years-roomba-hacks/
- https://github.com/jon/pyroomba
PCB Service and Design:
- https://www.seeedstudio.com/fusion_pcb.html
- https://library.io/
- https://fritzing.org/home/
- Autodesk library.io
- Tinkercad
Further Readings on Wearables, Science Fiction, and life with Robots and IoT
(some are linked via NYU library)
- Garments of Paradise by Susan Elizabeth Ryan. (Cambridge: MIT Press), 2014.
- Hartman, Kate. Make: Wearable Electronics: Design, prototype, and wear your own interactive garments (Make: Technology on Your Time. Sebastopol, CA: Maker Media, 2014.
- Dunne, Anthony and Raby, Fiona. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013.
- Atwood, Margaret. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. New York: Anchor Books, 2011.
- Wodiczko, Krzystof. Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
- Schwartzman, Madeline. Seeing Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception. London: Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2011.
- James H. Auger, Why Robot? Speculative design, the domestication of technology and the considered future. PhD diss., Royal College of Art, 2012. (Pages 61–91.)
- Martina Mara and Markus Appel, “Science fiction reduces the eeriness of android robots: A field experiment,” Computers in Human Behavior, no. 48 (2015): 156–162.
- Heather Suzanne Woods, “Asking more of Siri and Alexa: feminine persona in service of surveillance capitalism,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 35, no. 4 (2018): 334-349
- Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why we Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, New York: Basic Books, 2011. (Chapter 6: “Love’s Labor Lost.”)
- Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. (Chapter 4: “A Life of Metal.”)
- Chang Geun Oh and Jaeheung Park, “From Mechanical Metamorphosis to Empathic Interaction: A Historical Overview of Robotic Creatures,” Journal of Human-Robot Interaction 3, no. 1 (2014) 4-19.
- Thao Phan, “Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5, no. 1 (2019): 1–38.
- Katherine Behar, Object-Oriented Feminism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
- S.M. West, M. Whittaker, and K. Crawford, “Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race and Power in AI,” AI Now Institute, 2019.
- Isaac Asimov, The Naked Sun, New York: Doubleday, 1957. (Science fiction)
- Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild: And Other Stories, New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. (Science fiction)