There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

You will critically engage with sketching and prototyping for electronics and hardware with an introduction to microcontroller-based prototyping platform (e.g. arduino). You will work with electronics components: LED, resistor, potentiometer, switches, LDR, using breadboards, wiring, testing, debugging. Exploring the context and precedents from working practitioners, you will upload simple example programs onto target system.You will also engage with programming/sketching in software with an overview of design concepts: execution, code vs data, variables, programming language, edit-compile-execute-test cycle. You will build graphics programmes using suitable environment (e.g. Scratch or Design By Numbers, then Processing), and respond to syntax errors, run-time errors, debugging.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Critically appraise the capabilities and limitations of microcontrollers in a design application.

LO2: Rationalise the principles of electronics in prototyping simple devices.

LO3: Plan, produce and test simple graphics programs.

LO4: Appraise and apply principles of programming for interaction design.