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1. We will post any last minute details for or changes to meeting places here.
2. It will be the place for any follow-up discussion and some kind of daily summary.
3. A place where anyone else anywhere (including people at various Public Schools who are reading along or running parallel sessions) to participate as much as you want to – send responses, questions, provocations, photos, demands, etc.
In this class we will take students of the public school of chicago and offer them free classes @ Mid-Coast Free School.
Because education should be free.
I want to target this class at people who have prior programming experience, preferreably an OOP language.
This class is an introduction to openFrameworks, a cross-platform C++ library for creative coding. Especially created for artists and designers, openFrameworks is the ideal starting point for those who want to take their first steps in C++ programming. At the same time, it is an immensely powerful tool for developing more advanced projects, providing a simple and intuitive structure for experimentation with many other open-source libraries.
This class will be a chance to experiment with building new systems for interaction that move away from the screen and into physical space.
Ok here's the plan - Let's do a long Saturday or Sunday workshop. Approximately 4 hours total, maybe 1.5 hours of discussion and the rest for doing the project.
I'll teach on these topics - circuits, schematics, electronic components (including how to read data sheets), how to breadboard, how to solder, and an introduction to synthesis & electronic instruments (like the solar theremin). Then we'll all put together solar theremins from the kits available on the ClockworkRobot site (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kinetic-arts/sculpture/gallery7/1.htm).
Let's wait until after the holidays so everybody can order their kits and get back in town. I'm pretty open, what Saturday or Sundays work for you all?
Kayte
This would be a 3-session discussion group offered in January. We would consider popular reactions to 9/11 through curated selections of film and music, web surfing, and readings. It would be casual, informative, and hopefully fun! Also, this is not a proselytizing forum, so leave your conspiracy politics at the door, my truther friends.
The course would be broken down thematically and chronologically as such:
- Session 1: Jingoism/Creeping Paranoia (W. Bush term I, 2001-2004)
- Session 2: Social/Judicial Dystopia (W. Bush term II, 2005-2009)
- Session 3: Tempting Equilibrium (Obama term I, 2009-present)
We'd all meet, share some snacks and coffee, and get to the crazy shit that is America's reaction to 9/11... email me for more: znkaplan@gmail.com / http://zacharykaplanis.tumblr.com
All best!
Basic electronics:
Components, schematics, power, AC and DC, signals, electrical safety, soldering, how to scrap for parts, how to put together projects from kits or schematics, more advanced topics if desired.
I have a bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and I am an electronics hobbyist. Let's make stuff.
close reading of plato. one book every two weeks?