Wiring, Soldering, Prototyping

Nick Doiron - @mapmeld MoMA

rocket-quick overview

• Wiring • Soldering • Prototyping

Circuits ✓

Components ✓

Basic concepts scale up

Wiring

• Could be a nightmare

Breadboards = Lego

• OK to have a diagram around until you get it

Circuit Up Close

This works… briefly V = IR

You wouldn’t drive a car without brakes…

Wiring

• Wires don’t know

• Wires should be interchangeable

• Which wire shouldn’t matter

• (except over distances or quality)

LED Pro-Tip

Best Debug

Where do I go next?

• Connecting black boxes • Writing code • Learning a lot of electrical

engineering

Soldering

Soldering Best Practice

How much solder?

• Small bead

• Too much and you will be connecting pins!

if breadboards are Lego… solder is superglue

ok, you can undo

Early stages

Early stages

• Limor Fried wearable glass

Dummy prototypes

Arduino prototypes

• DoD / other shield project / Drone-duino?

• Shields get you started on common platform

Iterate

HeatSeek - IoT prototype

Prototype: OLPC

Prototype: OLPC

Why we changed course

• a CONSUMER PRODUCT,an EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT,a PERSONAL / ART PROJECT

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• but we wouldn’t know without the prototype

Where to start?

• This probably isn’t the final thing

• I do know how to build this

Materials

Materials

• Custom boards (do research)

• Soldering (this weekend)

• Sewing (life skill!)

• Conductive Play-Doh (kid-friendly)

Thanks!

• “Go out there and make something!!!!!!!” — Super Awesome Sylvia