Resources

Max Lab Blog – Suppliers

Electronics

How to Solder Comic
Sparkfun – What is a Circuit?
Sparkfun – Voltage, Current Resistance, and Ohms Law
Sparkfun – Voltage Dividers
Sparkfun – Pull-up Resistors
Sparkfun – Series and Parallel Circuits

Sparkfun – How To Use a Multimeter
Sparkfun – How to Read a Schematic
Sparkfun – AC vs DC
Kadis – Introduction to Electronics
CCRMA Wiki – Intro to Electronics

Electronics Supplies

jameco.com
digikey.com
mouser.com
sparkfun.com
adafruit.com
futurelec.com
Guide to Crimp Connectors

 

Arduino

Arduino Cheat sheet
Arduino In a Nutshell
Intro to Arduino Book – Excellent for people who like a more methodical approach and are just starting to code.
Sparkfun – Processing and Max/MSP
Sparkfun – Installing an Arduino Library
Sparkfun – Arduino Shields
Sparkfun – Arduino Comparison Guide
Multitasking And Arduino
Microcontroller Architecture

 

Sensors

Sensor Wiki
ITP on Sensors

 

Examples

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/wiki/Example_Interfaces
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/wp/250a/past-projects/
http://www.nime.org/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/
http://lovetech.org/
http://www.instructables.com/howto/music/
http://djtechtools.com/
http://makezine.com/blog/

https://barthopkin.com/instrumentarium/
http://120years.net/
Ken Rinaldo’s List of Artists, Scientist, Researchers, Inventors, Organizations, festivals, Exhibitions, conceptual and technical reading sources.

 

Similar Classes

ITP Physical Computing Class
MIT Media Lab – Tangible Interfaces

 

Max/MSP

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~hert/Max/Nutshell.maxpat
Max5 Thesaurus 

Max Object Database

https://docs.cycling74.com/max7/vignettes/msp_functional
https://docs.cycling74.com/max7/vignettes/jitter_functional
https://docs.cycling74.com/max7/vignettes/max_functional

https://docs.cycling74.com/max7/vignettes/max_alphabetical
https://docs.cycling74.com/max7/vignettes/msp_alphabetical
https://docs.cycling74.com/max7/vignettes/jitter_alphabetical

 

Motors and Kinetics

 

http://modular-muse.com/music-bots/automated-musical-instruments