<blockquote what="official Harvestworks announcement" note="Some parts of this series have an entrance fee." more="http://www.harvestworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=318:lecture-and-workshop-series-by-phillip-stearns&catid=3:newsflash" note="This is a five part series, of which only the first part is fully described below." main-harvestworks-page="http://www.harvestworks.org" edits="some reformatting, blurbs for most of the meetings removed">
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:22:36 -0500 (EST) From: Harvestworks Announcements <announceme...@harvestworks.org> Reply-To: announceme...@harvestworks.org Subject: Basic Electronics & Networked Sciences - 5-part Lecture/Workshop Series starts this Monday! Lecture and Workshop Series: Living Circuits by Phillip Stearns Current VanLier resident Phillip Stearns offers a 5-part educational lecture/workshop series on basic electronics and networked sciences. Lectures will be held on evenings during the week free of charge and be accompanied by an optional hands-on ticketed workshop held on the weekend following. The goal of the lectures is to provide a background and context to the contemporary use of electronics, computing, and biology in the development of neural networks. Each lecture will contain a historical overview of a key topic accompanied by demonstrations and animations. The optional workshops will focus on applying the information and knowledge presented in the lecture through hands on-projects led through slide-show, animation, and direct instruction. For more information, check out our class website and sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/stearnsclasses - If you have questions call Hans Tammen at 212-431-1130 ext 2. Membership is $75/yr, and you can pay for the membership when you sign up for the class. ___________________________________________________________________________= ___ Lecture 1 - Electricity Basics: A Historical Overview Monday, March 15, 2010, 6:30 - 9:30pm FREE Lecture will Cover: Definition Etymology Greeks and Amber Electrostatics Electrochemical Mesopotamian Battery + Electroplating Voltaic Piles and Spasming Frog Legs DEMONSTRATION - Batteries from food Atomic Models and Electromagnetism DC versus AC Edison v Tesla Lights and Vacuum Tubes Radio and Transistors Transistorized Computing Telecommunications Robotics and Nanotechnology The intersection of electronics and biology ___________________________________________________________________________= ___ Workshop 1 - Circuit Bending: Building Skills for DIY Electronics Saturday, March 20, 2010, noon - 6pm - $145 (includes materials) Bent-O Boxes! // Circuit Bendable Sonic Sushi Build your very own bendable snack-sized sound synthesizer music kit that comes in a bento box project housing. The circuit is a 1-bit digital sound s ynthesizer made from simple digital logic chips that has excellent circuit bending potential. Includes parts for the base sound generator circuit and extras for your own modifications. Can be used as a stand alone synthesizer module or as an effects pedal! No experience necessary. The class covers basic kit building skills, how to solder, identifying components, wiring design and installing knobs and switches. The workshop will begin with a survey of the history of electronics and all the accidental discoveries up to the art of circuit bending, no-input mixing, and the reign of the glitch in pop culture. As we build the kit, we'll discuss the analog and digital components involved, how they work together, and how they can be short circuited, re-routed, and customized. < blurbs for rest of the series /> -- Harvestworks is a non-profit arts center in Lower Manhattan. Private funding for our programs has been provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Mary Flagler Charitable Trust, the New York State Music Fund, the James E. Robison Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Carnegie Corporation, the Aaron Copland Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, the Edwards Foundation Arts Fund, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Materials for the Arts, the Experimental TV Center and media The foundation Inc. Public Support is provided by New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs. Thanks to our Friends Circle, Cycling74, Digidesign, Inc. and NHT Pro. < ... /> Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center 596 Broadway, Suite 602 New York, NY 10012 </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <secret...@lxny.org> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss