===== Intro to IM =====
**Place:** Inside the teaching lab that is hidden somewhere deep in the Arts Center\\
**Time:** Wednesday, August 31, 2016, 2:40pm – 5:20pm 

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=== Forword ===
  * Checking attendance
  * Reading assignment from Monday: Greenish Guys…
  * Checking if everyone is able to log into //Intro to IM'16 class-site// using user-name and password.
  * Updating your user-profile and changing your display name in the Wordpress Blog.  Did everybody upload their image(s). Let us check it out!
  * Categorize and Tag your posts!
  * How-to session: How-to optimise the photos of your drawings (-> 3 min intro to Photoshop)
  * Example for documentation of a students project… ([[http://www.felix-beck.de/?/object/geocane/|The GeøCane]])


=== E27 plus More ideas ===
  * Reminder of what the //E27 plus More// project is about...
  * 20 minutes concept presentations

=== Power on ===
  * [[http://intro16.nyuad.im/index.php/2016/08/31/power_on_james/|Todays lecture]] will be about those little greenish guys inside those wires… [[https://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/lessons/electronics/electricity-the-basics/|Electricity]] => Voltage (Volt), Current (Ampere), Resistance (Ohms) => Electronics, Sensors, drawing schematics, [[https://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/labs/labs-electronics/breadboard/|Breadboards]], basic tools of the trade.
  * Todays Lab session: Turn the Arduino into an expensive power supply to light up your LED.

=== Homework ===
== Readings==
  * The Art of Interactive Design ([[http://cc.droolcup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The-Art-of-Interactive-Design.pdf|PDF]], Chapter 1)
  * [[https://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/lessons/microcontrollers/digital-input-output/|Read Digital Input & Output]]
  * [[https://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/lessons/microcontrollers/microcontrollers-the-basics/|Microcontrollers, the basics]]

== Assignment==
  * Create a circuit with a switch that doesn’t require the use of your hands. Make a post in our blog  about it.