Beginner's Guide to Arduino: Transform Your Ideas into Reality in Just Two Days!

Arduino Project Cases

Workshop: Human-Machine Interaction

Workshop Theme:

“Beginner’s Guide to Arduino: Transform Your Ideas into Reality!”

Workshop Introduction:

Simple and quick entry-level Arduino learning, mastering basic software and hardware interaction circuits, allowing you to realize your design ideas. In just two days, go from a tech novice to a new world of interactive intelligence! This workshop will be conducted entirely online.

Workshop Time:

May 14-15 (Weekend) for two days

Target Audience:

1. Students with no technical background in art design

2. Students who hope to initially realize their design ideas

3. Students who wish to learn about human-computer interaction technology

4. Students interested in the field of interactive media installation

5. Others filled with creative ideas who wish to make intelligent modifications

Instructor Introduction:

Course Outline:

Workshop Fee:

1. Fee: 590 yuan

2. Fee + Free Shipping Arduino Basic Kit: 690 yuan

Benefits:

1. Students of the Morning Fungus: Enjoy a 10% discount (excluding kits), priority registration

2. Group purchase of fee + kit (3 people): Each person reduces 100 yuan

* Discounts cannot be enjoyed repeatedly

To ensure a good experience, this workshop only has 18 spots, we will select based on the registration form, detailed process as follows:

Contact the teacher to register

Fair selection based on registration time, professional background, awards, etc.

Students who pass the selection can participate in this workshop activity.

“What You Will Gain”

In this workshop, you can complete a prototype project with an excellent team or independently realize your creative design. You can exchange ideas with the instructor and experience the initial realization of art interactive installations or human-computer interaction projects.

Arduino Kit Description:

The Arduino kit purchased for the course is a commonly available kit on the market, not produced by the Morning Fungus Academy. This basic kit includes components as shown in the table above, with the mainboard being the original Arduino UNO board.

Registration Channel

Fungus

WeChat: zhaodesign01

Gu Gu

WeChat: zhaojundesign2

What is Arduino?

In simple terms, Arduino is a programmable “toy” made up of small circuit boards, some the size of a fingernail, others the size of a playing card. We can use it to create many fun smart objects, such as transforming ordinary clothes into smart wearable devices, or designing an interactive solution to realize our ideas using Arduino.

Official Introduction Translation:

Arduino is a convenient, flexible, and easy-to-use open-source electronic prototyping platform that includes hardware (various models of Arduino boards) and software (Arduino IDE). It is suitable for artists, designers, enthusiasts, and anyone interested in “interaction”.

Arduino can sense the environment through various sensors and can control lights, motors, and other devices to feedback and affect the environment. The microcontroller on the board can be programmed using the Arduino programming language, compiled into binary files, and burned into the microcontroller. Programming for Arduino is done using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing). Arduino-based projects can include only Arduino or include Arduino along with other software running on a PC, communicating with each other (such as Flash, Processing, MaxMSP). You can create your own designs or purchase ready-made kits; all software used for Arduino can be downloaded for free. Hardware reference designs (CAD files) also follow the available open-source protocol, allowing you to modify them freely according to your own requirements.

This workshop includes a free basic Arduino kit

What Can Arduino Do?

Arduino is actually a representative of open-source platforms, and it can do many things just like its peers. We can even understand that by learning Arduino, you grasp a rudimentary version of a computer or robot. With Arduino, we can easily create interactive devices and interactive media.

The technology principles of interactive devices are relatively simple, with a large space for artistic creation and strong expressiveness, especially small desktop interactive devices, which are very suitable for beginners. The beginning of this article shows a video of an Arduino project, and the following will showcase works in the field of art design.

Let’s first look at some interactive device cases:

Breath of Light

Breath of Light, exhibited by Preciosa, allows viewers to gently blow on the light fixture like playing a bubble-blowing game, causing the lights to light up sequentially. In the breath, thousands of crystal lights illuminate the entire space, making one feel as if they are in a dream.

Hortum MACHINA

Hortum MACHINA is designed by the reEarth research team; it is a plant ball that can autonomously sense its surrounding environment. It can determine whether the environmental conditions are suitable for living and autonomously move to a new, more suitable place for growth.

HEXI responsive wall

This device consists of 60 modular units, each of which can move independently. More intriguingly, all modules can reflect human behavior, causing the entire system to fluctuate or react to human movements.

The Light Seesaw

The designer combines technology and art to create a glowing seesaw with music, allowing everyone to participate in the fun, shaping a wonderful urban art atmosphere.

New Spring

This magical installation art piece is called New Spring, inspired by the blooming scene of cherry blossoms during the Japanese cherry blossom festival, expressing the beautiful and melancholic natural moment when flowers fall from the tree.

The Forest of Light

This is a romantic interactive lighting installation created by teamlab. When someone stands in front of the light fixture, the nearest light will emit a strong glow and play music, spreading to other nearby lights, continuing until all lights in the space produce beautiful music.

Waterfall Swing

Waterfall Swing creatively combines a waterfall with a swing. The swing has a sensor above it that can capture the characteristics and speed of the person swinging, calculating the timing of water drops, creating a unique space without getting wet, which is very interesting.

What Else Can Arduino Do?

Strictly speaking, Arduino is the best choice for us to start learning, but it is not the only choice. Other similar products include Raspberry Pi, etc.

Projects that Arduino can also do:

Sigfox Talking Plant

The plant emits a “thirsty” sound when it lacks water, crying out “give me water”, “I’m thirsty”

Arduino Wireless Animatronic Hand

This is a gesture input wearable device made in the form of a glove. This device can detect finger bending actions. Designers can design various interactive solutions based on bending actions in different scenarios, such as triggering voice playback “Come here!” when you make a fist and move your index finger.

Why Should Interaction Designers Learn Technology?

1. From a personal development perspective: Learning some technical knowledge can break the zero cognition of algorithms, computers, and electronics, helping one view things from a new perspective, re-understanding design perspectives and concepts, and taking on more diverse design tasks.

2. From a disciplinary development perspective: Interaction design originally was about designing the ways of human-computer interface interaction (the interface does not only include the visual screen interface), and the narrow sense of the interface refers to the medium through which human senses communicate with computers. Only by understanding the basic properties of human senses and computer technology can one create excellent human-computer interaction designs, that is, human-computer interface interaction designs.

3. From a social demand perspective: Based on numerous facts, it can be predicted that in the future society, artificial devices will play more roles and perform more complex tasks, especially as computer technology continues to develop and increasingly integrates with other disciplines, leading to a growing demand for artificial technology and thus an expanding need for talents that integrate art and design disciplines.

In summary, the work attributes of interaction designers must include computer technology. Mastering both design and technology in different fields will become the mainstream for future interaction designers.

Q&A

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can teams be formed for this workshop?

Teams can be formed, or projects can be completed individually.

2. Are there any professional background restrictions?

No restrictions on background, grade, or graduation status; anyone can participate.

3. Are there any technical foundation requirements for participants?

No technical foundation requirements; students who know nothing about technology can also participate.

4. Will the teacher answer questions for those who don’t understand?

During working hours, teachers will be online to answer questions; outside of working hours, leave a message in the group and wait for the teacher’s reply.

5. How is the quality of the Arduino purchased here?

This is procured based on market average quality and price, slightly lower than market price, with quality comparable to most domestic Arduino brands.

6. Are there textbooks and materials that accompany the course?

A basic electronic version of the Arduino tutorial can be provided.

7. Can the course be refunded or exchanged?

This workshop does not support refunds or exchanges; please register carefully.

WHY

Why Choose Morning Fungus Academy?

1. Ideals and Values.The ideal of Morning Fungus Academy is to promote the popularization of experiential design thinking in China, enhancing people’s design thinking aesthetics and empathy. The academy gathers many idealistic and talented teachers and staff. We plan to popularize interactive design knowledge in elderly communities, explain the development of external technology to imprisoned individuals, organize service design improvement projects in rural areas of Sichuan, and hold lectures on interactive design knowledge in some universities. We hope more students with design ideals will engage in experiential design and cutting-edge design, contributing to the future design strength of Chinese society.

2. The Most Professional Tsinghua Academy Team. Morning Fungus Academy originated from the Information Department of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts* interdisciplinary studies, with teaching lecturers covering all interactive design-related majors at Tsinghua University, possessing strong advantages in professional aspects. Course content is derived from Tsinghua Academy’s curriculum and international interactive course systems, with the teaching team being the most experienced and capable of guidance.

3. Professional Course Design. Giving fish is simple, but teaching fishing is challenging. The academy team possesses professional teacher qualifications, which promotes Morning Fungus Academy to become the most educationally literate institution. The course design of this academy will carry a strong educational characteristic.

4. Responsible Academic Management. We have dedicated academic teachers to supervise and check students’ learning and assignment situations. We do not overlook the learning experiences and outcomes of every student, striving to advance the construction of the educational teaching system, tirelessly managing the learning supervision and teacher team.

5. Professional Experiential Design Education. Morning Fungus Academy’s vision is design education in cutting-edge fields, including service design, experiential design, human-computer interaction design, smart product design, and future design fields. The faculty comes from prestigious domestic and foreign universities, ensuring the richness and professionalism of the courses, guaranteeing the value of professional knowledge.

6. Transparent Course Pricing.Our course design and pricing system is balanced and stable, with promotional policies being open and transparent. Random pricing and personalized discounts are strictly prohibited, ensuring every student enjoys equal prices and services when registering for courses, guaranteeing fairness and justice.

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