Quick introduction to resources for wiring and soldering, followed by examples of how to make prototypes

1. Wiring, Soldering,
Prototyping
Nick Doiron - @mapmeld
MoMA

2. rocket-quick overview
• Wiring
• Soldering
• Prototyping

3. Circuits ✓

4. Components ✓

5. Basic concepts scale up

6. Wiring
• Could be a nightmare

7. Breadboards = Lego
• OK to have a diagram around until you get it

9. Circuit Up Close

10. This works… briefly
V = IR

11. You wouldn’t drive a car
without brakes…

13. Wiring
• Wires don’t know
• Wires should be interchangeable
• Which wire shouldn’t matter
• (except over distances or quality)

14. LED Pro-Tip

15. Best Debug

16. Where do I go next?
• Connecting black boxes
•Writing code
• Learning a lot of electrical
engineering

17. Soldering

18. Soldering Best Practice

19. How much solder?
• Small bead
• Too much and you will be connecting pins!

20. if breadboards are Lego… solder is superglue

22. ok, you can undo

24. Early stages

25. Early stages
• Limor Fried wearable glass

26. Dummy prototypes

27. Arduino prototypes
• DoD / other shield project / Drone-duino?
• Shields get you started on common platform

28. Iterate

30. HeatSeek - IoT prototype

31. Prototype: OLPC

32. Prototype: OLPC

33. Why we changed course
• a CONSUMER PRODUCT,
an EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT,
a PERSONAL / ART PROJECT
!
• but we wouldn’t know without the prototype

35. Where to start?
• This probably isn’t the final thing
• I do know how to build this

36. Materials

37. Materials
• Custom boards (do research)
• Soldering (this weekend)
• Sewing (life skill!)
• Conductive Play-Doh (kid-friendly)

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