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Arduino for Artists
On Thursday evening ( June 5th) Studio Bricolage collaborated on our first art and technology workshop with the Learning Technologies Center (LTC) from the Science Museum of Minnesota.
This workshop introduced folks to the Arduino an inexpensive microcontroller from the Arduino website they describe it this way:
Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.
We (staff from Studio Bricolage and the LTC) see the Arduino as a wonderful way for artists to begin to make their art come alive. The Arduino lets you create movement, sound, light... it can be used to sense things in the physical world... so the thing you're making can have a sense of touch, or see a shadow. What this means to artists is that they can break down the wall between their work and the people who experience their work.
This was the first session of a two session workshop. We looked at some Arduino projects and sculptures, tried out the Arduino and the application you use to program it, and made some electronic circuits that the Arduino controlled ( turning on LED's and Motors)
We've heard that more folks are interested in the Workshop than we could fit in the first, so we're planning a second workshop in the coming month. We have an Arduino web page you can look at with links and information about the workshop
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Steering Committee notes
Studio Bricolage Steering Committee Notes
November 26, 2007
Attendees: Anne Birch, Bow Bowman, Steve Jevning, Keith Braafladt, Heinz Brummel, Janet Groenert, Adam Brusic, Steve Lick
December First Friday gift making
- Bow will make/bake cookies that guests can cut and decorate
- Heidi Hafermann - woodcutting and painting decorations
- Cassandra Monson - jewelry with duct tape and polymer-bake clay
- Westy Copeland - decorations with polymer clay
- Jef Pokorney - wire sculpture and soldering
- Adam Brusic - Origami gift boxes
- We'll ask people to bring favorite paper for Origami
- Anne will send media announcements and Steve J. email to SB list
- We need to poll guests to ask about future First Fridays and class topics
- **** Thursday, December 6 organize shop for Friday party, 6 pm for one hour! ****
January First Friday event, January 4
- Build What You Want
- We will search for interesting artists to guide projects, special invite to Jeffrey Zachmann, kinetic sculptor www.zachmann.com/
or Tim Fort, www.lunatim.com/kinart/kinetic.shtml and do slightly different projects
- Build giant Rube Goldberg-style roller coaster from door to back of workshop
- Make FIMO polymer clay balls
February 1 First Friday will be "snow & ice (& fire)"
- Giant blocks of ice to carve, set along sidewalk in front of shop
- Build with snow
- Make a temporary structure (yurt?) to keep warm?
- Need snow & ice artists
Reaffirm need to seek a diverse group of artists to lead future First Friday events. No overarching themes, just eclectic cool stuff.
Heinz Brummel. talked about his recently completed yurt-building project. People are excited to see his creation at his Open House. He would love to teach others how to build big and small yurts using lots of different materials. Perhaps we can build a few structures at Studio Bricolage next spring/summer and take them to Steve Clark's Wisconsin Bike Farm for a weekend of camping, building and play. Heinz also bought a great industrial sewing machine for his project and we talked about potential sewing activities.
Next SB Steering Committee meetings
Monday, December 10
Friday, December 27
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