---
title: MDEF 20/21 - TAUMs Syllabus
description: Learning two week class convining Unpacking Intelligent Machines and The Almost Useful Artifacts
Autors: FLU
---

###### tags: `MDEF` `FLU` `Future Learning Unit` `Fab Lab Barcelona`

# The Almost Useful Machines Weeks - (TAUMs)

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## GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Fab Labs and advanced manufacturing infrastructure are making accessible for any citizen to make anything anywhere while sharing it with global networks of knowledge, which allows accelerating design, development and deployment processes for new products to be born. Traditional planning and urbanism are being disrupted by the acceleration of technology and the dynamic transformation of society during the last half century; it is important to rethink how we make things and why, and generate active and practical conversations through projects and prototypes that become manifests itself.

**TAUMs** is a practical and intensive two-weeks experimental program into fabrication, physical computing and introduction to the Fab Lab environment. It has been designed to fill knowledge gaps and aimed to prepare students to succeed and improve their experience during [Fab Academy](http://fabacademy.org/).

We will be going over the basic skills needed to design, develop and fabricate almost anything in a Fab Lab, as well as how to manage time and resources necessary to its proper operation.

Our active learning methodology is based on the practice and **spiral development**, designed to encourage the creativity and imagination of the participants, as well as stimulate the search for tools and solutions for their correct definition.

We will offer an impact experience, seeking to inspire and motivate the participants to use the possibilities of digital manufacturing and technologies to prototype, design, fabricate and program **an “honest” mechanical artefact that “makes” something.**

## MODULES

The content of this course it's the result to align and combine the knowledge and expertise of two previous courses of MDEF.
- [Unpacking Intelligent Machines 19/20](https://hackmd.io/mVKB3iS9RCOP1_EIvVGTvQ)
- [The Almost Useful Artifacts 19/20](https://hackmd.io/siePSChgSzycRHW6iV6kkw)

### Useless machines

As existential purity, building a machines that doesn´t have a clear purpose as fabricating something or solve worlds problems allows the designer to focus on mechanics and movements allowing more freedom on to really simplify actuation forgotting about constrains.

The metaphor of machines and artifacts doing endless predefined or random movements is what we call **Useless Machines**.

**Students will develop and fabricate something that is a mess of contradictions and wonderfulness.**


[VIDEO LINK](https://vimeo.com/50053703) - *ThinkerLog*

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*ThinkerLog

### Unpacking Intelligent Machines

**An introduction to physical computing by hacking everyday objects**

We spend our lives interacting with objects and interfaces who's underlying technology we hardly understand not merely due to their complexity but also because they were intended to be closed by design.

Through the idea of hacking, we will explore the internal components building everyday objects, from coffee machines to wi-fi networks, while learning how to use open software and hardware tools to change the way they work and interface with the world.

## SCHEDULE

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### Dedication time
**Classes:** from 15:00 to 19:00 (16 per week)
- Hands-on sessions guided by instructors

**Group work:** from 10:00 to 14:00 (16 per week)
- Non guided sessions where students work on a task independently or in groups

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* **_Tuesday:_ UNPACKING** (I know whats inside)
* **_Wednesday:_ HACKING** (I not afraid of exploring)
* **_Thursday:_ CONCEPTS**(I have a concept to work with)
* **_Friday:_ ARTIFACTS** (I built something I trust)
* **_Tuesday:_ CONNECTION** (I built something that works)
* **_Wednesday:_ ENHANCING** (I learn how to built connected systems)
* **_Thursday:_ INTEGRATION**(I built something that works connected)
* **_Friday:_ DOCUMENT & REFLECT**(I have a final machine)
* **_Monday 7th:_ SHARE & PRESENT**(Final Presentation)

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## WORKING METHODOLOGY

The whole class will be divided in groups of 4 people.
Each team will present a **ARTIFACT** at the end of the course.

### Submissions
All the students have to document their work for the course:

- **Personal reflexions and learning outcome post** (personal MDEF webpage)
- **Video and Slides of the machine** (Google drive)

The deadline for the students to submit their work for your seminar is **Sunday the 6th of December.**

### Presentation Requirements

#### Video
- Video at minimun 1080p stabilized (not hand held recordings, use a tripod if you don´t know how to stabilize by software)
- Black, gray or white background.
- Open source music matching the artifacts(properly acknowledged).
- Ideally the sound produced by the machine will be also recorded in the video.
- Entry and finish titles with Team names, name of the artifact and Iaac/FablabBCN .

#### Slides

Min 10 slides presentation on:
* Concept/s of the machine
* How you designed it
* What is supose to do or not to do.
* How did you fabricate it (fabrication processes and materials)
* System diagram (ilustration explaining function, parts, and retaltions)
* The coding Logic (Algorithms and flow charts, pseudocoding )
* Photographies of the end artifacts at high res.
* Iteration Procees - Learning by Accomplishments and failures
* *Hybrid teams feedback (reflection out methodology workflows)

### Grading Method

Reflection (post): 5%
Conceptualitzation (From ideas to artifacts): 30%
Assistance: 10%
Involvement (individual): 10%
Presentation (slides and videos): 40%
If it does not explode: 5%

### Design principles

* “Honest” mechanical artifact, All the element must be seen accounted for “INTEGRATIVE"
- Bulid on top of hacked parts
- Maximize uselness with the minimum amount of elements, minamalism

### Output

**“Honest” mechanical artifact (1 input and/or 1 outputs + 2 differents fabrication process)**

## MATERIALS

All the electronics materials as development boards, sensors and actuators will be provided during the workshop.

As well as the fabrication materials

**Bring in your laptop and any prototyping tools you have around such as a cutter, tape, markers, screwdrivers...**

***Do you have any old appliance at home you would like to take apart? Bring them, too!***

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**REMOTE STUDENTS HAVE TO**

* **Electronic kit** (provided by IAAC)
* **Old appliance** (radios, toys, telephones, lamps, screens, keyboards...) **For safety reasons, avoid choosing appliances with a lot of power or that are easily heated**

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**REMOTE STUDENTS MAY NEED**

Some recomended materials that you may need durting the class

* [plier+solder+welder](https://www.amazon.es/Soldadores-WOWGO-Temperatura-Mult%C3%ADmetro-Herramientas/dp/B07PLTB46N/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=soldador&qid=1604925904&s=tools&sr=1-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzUTI1U05XNTUyTzNCJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUExMDM2MTU2MzFVNklDQVpEOEo2SSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNzIxOTc5MUdXTFc5UjgzWEJDQyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU= )
* [Multimeter](https://www.electan.com/multimetro-digital-p-2553.html)
* [Solder material](https://tienda.bricogeek.com/herramientas-de-prototipado/234-bobina-de-estano-100g.html)
* [Electric cable](https://tienda.bricogeek.com/cables/875-bobina-de-cable-de-prototipo-rojo.html)
* [Precision screwdrivers]( https://tienda.bricogeek.com/varios/1069-juego-de-6-destornilladores-de-precision.html?search_query=destornillador&results=6)
* Hand tools (screwdriver, hammer, etc..)
* Prototyping tools (Scissors, cutters, glue, cardboard...)

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### Unpacking machines

**Fish tank heater**

**Hand Drill**

**Video projector**
Broken lamp but everything else should work

**Wi-Fi AP**

**Apple Mac CPU**

**Printer Multifunction 1**

**Printer Multifunction 2**

**Printer Multifunction 3**

#### Links references:

1. Datasheets https://octopart.com
2. Patents search https://patents.google.com/
3. iFixit https://ifixit.com
4. Hack a Day https://hackaday.com/

### Electronics Kits

* Adafruit HUZZAH32 - ESP32 Feather Board pre-soldered
* Neopixel 6-12 LED Strip with Patch Cables
* Sensor and electronics basics kit
* Short USB to Micro USB cable

## BACKGROUND REFERENCES

### Books

Below is an eclectic list of books that range from technology criticism, design principles towards hand on guides on building hardware and software. We choose them because we love them.

[](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/70336932-pral2a?utf8=%E2%9C%93&utf8=%E2%9C%93&shelf=mdef-the-way-things-work&view=covers&title=pral2a&sort=rating&order=d&per_page=100)

**Check the list in [Good Reads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/70336932-pral2a?utf8=%E2%9C%93&utf8=%E2%9C%93&shelf=mdef-the-way-things-work&view=covers&title=pral2a&sort=rating&order=d&per_page=100)**

_**They are ordered from shorter to longer so you can start with a short reading essay in your busy schedule**_

_Some of the books can be found online for free, use google and archive.org_

- [Make: The Maker’s Manual: A Practical Guide to the New Industrial Revolution](https://www.amazon.es/Make-Makers-Practical-Industrial-Revolution/dp/145718592X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1537539307&sr=1-1)
- [The 3D Printing Handbook: Technologies, design and applications](https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/9082748509/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=3dhu-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=9082748509&linkId=33a88790f9237a3e0c6eae63445b1948)
- [Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication](https://www.amazon.es/Fab-Revolution-Personal-Computers-Fabrication/dp/0465027458/ref=pd_sim_14_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0465027458&pd_rd_r=cc7aded7-f904-11e8-a234-ef904517ef02&pd_rd_w=qEj87&pd_rd_wg=GloRf&pf_rd_p=cc1fdbc2-a24a-4df6-8bce-e68491d548ae&pf_rd_r=8CBTMRHPVFRSQ0JWN5EP&psc=1&refRID=8CBTMRHPVFRSQ0JWN5EP)
* **The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things**, _Sterling, Bruce_. Strelka Press, 2014 (ISBN [9785906264305](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9785906264305)) 30 pages.
* **The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication**, _Pater, Ruben_. BIS Publishers, 2016 (ISBN [9789063694227](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9789063694227)) 32 pages.
* **The Design of Scarcity**, _Goodbun, Jon_. Strelka Press, 2014 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 44 pages.
* **Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words**, _Munroe, Randall_. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 (ISBN [9780544668256](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780544668256)) 64 pages.
* **The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism**, _Golumbia, David_. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2016 (ISBN [9781517901806](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781517901806)) 100 pages.
* **Society of the Spectacle**, _Debord, Guy_. Rebel Press, 1967 (ISBN [9780946061129](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780946061129)) 119 pages.
* **Introduction to Networking: How the Internet Works**, _Severance, Charles_. Charles Severance, 2015 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 122 pages.
* **Getting Started with Arduino**, _Banzi, Massimo_. Maker Media, Inc, 2008 (ISBN [9780596155513](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780596155513)) 128 pages.
* **Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)**, _Tulley, Gever_. Tinkering Unlimited, 2009 (ISBN [9780984296101](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780984296101)) 130 pages.
* **Shaping Things**, _Sterling, Bruce_. Mit Press, 2005 (ISBN [9780262693264](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262693264)) 149 pages.
* **Four Futures: Life After Capitalism**, _Frase, Peter_. Verso, 2015 (ISBN [9781781688137](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781781688137)) 150 pages.
* **Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth**, _Fuller, R. Buckminster_. Lars Muller Publishers, 1969 (ISBN [9783037781265](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9783037781265)) 151 pages.
* **Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology**, _Braitenberg, Valentino_. Bradford Book, 1984 (ISBN [9780262521123](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262521123)) 168 pages.
* **Ep, Vol. 2: Design Fiction**, _Gruijthuijsen, Krist_. Sternberg Press, 2019 (ISBN [9783956790485](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9783956790485)) 170 pages.
* **Platform Capitalism**, _Srnicek, Nick_. Polity, 2016 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 171 pages.
* **Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays**, _Stallman, Richard M._. Julian Yap, 2002 (ISBN [9781882114986](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781882114986)) 186 pages.
* **Tomas Saraceno: Flying Plaza**, _Saraceno, Tomás_. Spector Books, 2018 (ISBN [9783959050296](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9783959050296)) 208 pages.
* **Troubleshooting Analog Circuits**, _Pease, Robert A._. Newnes, 1991 (ISBN [9780750694995](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780750694995)) 217 pages.
* **Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People**, _Morton, Timothy_. Verso, 2017 (ISBN [9781786631329](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781786631329)) 224 pages.
* **Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design**, _Lefteri, Chris_. Laurence King, 2007 (ISBN [9781856695060](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781856695060)) 224 pages.
* **The Message Is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital**, _Beller, Jonathan_. Pluto Press, 2017 (ISBN [9780745337302](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780745337302)) 224 pages.
* **Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving**, _Spraul, V. Anton_. No Starch Press, 2012 (ISBN [9781593274245](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781593274245)) 233 pages.
* **Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology**, _O'Shea, Lizzie_. Verso, 2019 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 240 pages.
* **The Design of Everyday Things**, _Norman, Donald A._. Basic Books, 1988 (ISBN [9780465067107](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780465067107)) 240 pages.
* **Otl Aicher**, _Rathgeb, Markus_. Phaidon Press, 2007 (ISBN [9780714869384](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780714869384)) 240 pages.
* **Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work**, _Srnicek, Nick_. Verso, 2015 (ISBN [9781784780968](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781784780968)) 245 pages.
* **Arduino Development Cookbook**, _Amariei, Cornel_. Packt Publishing, 2015 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 246 pages.
* **Wiring the IoT: Connecting Hardware with Raspberry Pi, Node-Red, and MQTT**, _Rogers, Lucy_. O'Reilly Media, 2017 (ISBN [9781491953334](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781491953334)) 250 pages.
* **Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational**, _Stivers, Richard_. Bloomsbury Academic, 1999 (ISBN [9780826413673](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780826413673)) 256 pages.
* **Wasting Time on the Internet**, _Goldsmith, Kenneth_. Harper Perennial, 2016 (ISBN [9780062416476](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780062416476)) 256 pages.
* **The Hacker Ethic: and the Spirit of the Information Age**, _Himanen, Pekka_. Random House, 1999 (ISBN [9780375505669](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780375505669)) 256 pages.
* **The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems**, _Raskin, Jef_. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000 (ISBN [9780201379372](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780201379372)) 256 pages.
* **Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy**, _O'Neil, Cathy_. Crown, 2016 (ISBN [9780553418811](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780553418811)) 259 pages.
* **The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy**, _Graeber, David_. Melville House, 2013 (ISBN [9781612193748](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781612193748)) 261 pages.
* **Building Blockchain Projects: Building decentralized Blockchain applications with Ethereum and Solidity**, _Prusty, Narayan_. Packt Publishing, 2017 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 268 pages.
* **Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies**, _Bonnett, Alastair_. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 (ISBN [9780544101579](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780544101579)) 270 pages.
* **FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop–from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication**, _Gershenfeld, Neil_. Basic Books (AZ), 2005 (ISBN [9780465027453](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780465027453)) 278 pages.
* **The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era**, _Bakke, Gretchen_. Bloomsbury USA, 2016 (ISBN [9781608196104](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781608196104)) 288 pages.
* **Whole Earth Field Guide**, _Maniaque-Benton, Caroline_. Mit Press, 2016 (ISBN [9780262529280](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262529280)) 288 pages.
* **How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World**, _Johnson, Steven_. Riverhead Books, 2014 (ISBN [9781594632969](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781594632969)) 293 pages.
* **La silicolonisation du monde: l'irrésistible expansion du libéralisme numérique**, _Sadin, Éric_. L'Échappée, 2016 (ISBN [9782373090161](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9782373090161)) 296 pages.
* **Starting Electronics**, _Brindley, Keith_. Newnes, 1994 (ISBN [9780080969923](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780080969923)) 296 pages.
* **Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now**, _Rushkoff, Douglas_. Current, 2013 (ISBN [9781591844761](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781591844761)) 296 pages.
* **New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future**, _Bridle, James_. Verso, 2018 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 304 pages.
* **Hacking Electronics: An Illustrated DIY Guide for Makers and Hobbyists: An Illustrated DIY Guide for Makers and Hobbyists**, _Monk, Simon_. McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics, 2012 (ISBN [9780071802369](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780071802369)) 304 pages.
* **Designing Reality: How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution**, _Gershenfeld, Neil_. Basic Books, 2017 (ISBN [9780465093472](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780465093472)) 304 pages.
* **Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human**, _Wrangham, Richard W._. Basic Books, 2009 (ISBN [9780465013623](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780465013623)) 309 pages.
* **How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic**, _Geier, Michael Jay_. McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics, 2010 (ISBN [9780071744225](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780071744225)) 316 pages.
* **Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It**, _Savage, Adam_. Atria Books, 2019 (ISBN [9781982113490](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781982113490)) 320 pages.
* **The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us**, _Bonneuil, Christophe_. Verso, 2013 (ISBN [9781784780814](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781784780814)) 320 pages.
* **Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature**, _Benyus, Janine M._. William Morrow Paperbacks, 1997 (ISBN [9780060533229](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780060533229)) 320 pages.
* **Mario Bellini**, _Morteo, Enrico_. Phaidon Press, 2015 (ISBN [9780714869452](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780714869452)) 320 pages.
* **Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile**, _Medina, Eden_. MIT Press (MA), 2011 (ISBN [9780262016490](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262016490)) 326 pages.
* **The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins**, _Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt_. Princeton University Press, 2015 (ISBN [9780691162751](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780691162751)) 331 pages.
* **Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital**, _Moore, Jason W._. Verso, 2015 (ISBN [9781781689028](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781781689028)) 336 pages.
* **From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism**, _Turner, Fred_. , 2006 (ISBN [9780226817439](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780226817439)) 339 pages.
* **Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life**, _Greenfield, Adam_. Verso, 2017 (ISBN [9781786634498](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781786634498)) 340 pages.
* **Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists**, _Roberts, Dustyn_. McGraw-Hill Education Tab, 2010 (ISBN [9780071741675](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780071741675)) 350 pages.
* **Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945**, _Halpern, Orit_. Duke University Press, 2014 (ISBN [9780822357445](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780822357445)) 352 pages.
* **SUNBURST and LUMINARY - An Apollo Memoir**, _Eyles, Don_. Fort Point Press, Bostom, 2018 (ISBN [9780986385902](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780986385902)) 357 pages.
* **Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking**, _Collins, Nicolas_. Routledge, 2006 (ISBN [9780415998734](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780415998734)) 360 pages.
* **Fritz Kahn**, _Debschitz, Uta Von_. Taschen, 2009 (ISBN [9783836548403](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9783836548403)) 360 pages.
* **Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity**, _Lessig, Lawrence_. Penguin Books, 2004 (ISBN [9780143034650](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780143034650)) 368 pages.
* **Technology Choice: A Critique of the Appropriate Technology Movement**, _Willoughby, Kelvin_. Intermediate Technology Publications, 1990 (ISBN [9781853390579](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781853390579)) 368 pages.
* **Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction**, _Shedroff, Nathan_. Rosenfeld Media, 2012 (ISBN [9781933820989](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781933820989)) 368 pages.
* **Building Open Source Hardware: DIY Manufacturing for Hackers and Makers**, _Gibb, Alicia_. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2014 (ISBN [9780133373905](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780133373905)) 368 pages.
* **Quantum Computing Since Democritus**, _Aaronson, Scott_. Cambridge University Press, 2013 (ISBN [9780521199568](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780521199568)) 370 pages.
* **The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires**, _Wu, Tim_. Knopf, 2010 (ISBN [9780307269935](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780307269935)) 384 pages.
* **Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet**, _Goldberg, Ken_. Mit Press, 2000 (ISBN [9780262571548](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262571548)) 392 pages.
* **Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible**, _Lovell, Sophie_. Phaidon, 2010 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 398 pages.
* **Raspberry Pi Cookbook**, _Monk, Simon_. O'Reilly Media, 2013 (ISBN [9781449365226](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781449365226)) 414 pages.
* **To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism**, _Morozov, Evgeny_. PublicAffairs, 2013 (ISBN [9781610391382](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781610391382)) 415 pages.
* **How the Internet Works (How It Works)**, _Gralla, Preston_. Que, 1991 (ISBN [9780789736260](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780789736260)) 416 pages.
* **We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production**, _Leadbeater, Charles W._. Profile Books(GB), 2009 (ISBN [9781847653895](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781847653895)) 423 pages.
* **The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation**, _Gertner, Jon_. Penguin Press, 2012 (ISBN [9781594203282](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781594203282)) 432 pages.
* **Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism**, _Jameson, Fredric_. Duke Univ Press, 1991 (ISBN [9780822310907](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780822310907)) 438 pages.
* **Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made**, _Vince, Gaia_. Vintage, 2014 (ISBN [9780099572497](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780099572497)) 448 pages.
* **Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things**, _Panati, Charles_. William Morrow Paperbacks, 1987 (ISBN [9780060964191](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780060964191)) 463 pages.
* **Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming**, _Malm, Andreas_. Verso, 2015 (ISBN [9781784781293](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781784781293)) 496 pages.
* **Designing for Emerging Technologies: UX for Genomics, Robotics, and the Internet of Things**, _Follett, Jonathan_. O'Reilly Media, 2014 (ISBN [](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=)) 504 pages.
* **The Technological Society**, _Ellul, Jacques_. Vintage, 1954 (ISBN [9780394703909](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780394703909)) 512 pages.
* **The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution**, _Isaacson, Walter_. Simon and Schuster, 2014 (ISBN [9781476708690](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781476708690)) 542 pages.
* **User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction**, _Norman, Donald A._. CRC Press, 1986 (ISBN [9780898598728](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780898598728)) 544 pages.
* **Real World Instrumentation with Python: Automated Data Acquisition and Control Systems**, _Hughes, John M._. O'Reilly Media, 2010 (ISBN [9781449396633](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781449396633)) 622 pages.
* **Arduino Cookbook**, _Margolis, Michael_. O'Reilly Media, 2010 (ISBN [9780596802479](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780596802479)) 662 pages.
* **Designing Interactions [With CDROM]**, _Moggridge, Bill_. MIT Press (MA), 2006 (ISBN [9780262134743](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780262134743)) 766 pages.
* **Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst**, _Sapolsky, Robert M._. Penguin Press, 2017 (ISBN [9781594205071](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781594205071)) 790 pages.
* **Practical Electronics for Inventors**, _Scherz, Paul_. McGraw-Hill Companies, 1998 (ISBN [9780071452816](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780071452816)) 952 pages.
* **The Art of Electronics**, _Horowitz, Paul_. Cambridge University Press, 1980 (ISBN [9780521370950](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780521370950)) 1152 pages.

### Sites

* [hackaday.com](https://hackaday.com/) is one of the best blogs on DIY inventions and hardware hacking
* [lowtechmagazine.com](https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/) many technology choices are political and economic, looking at past forgotten technologies helps us see the future
* [news.ycombinator.com](https://news.ycombinator.com) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.
* [archive.fabacademy.org](http://archive.fabacademy.org/) 10 years of project from Fab Labs around the world. Sometimes hard to browse but inspiring!
* [learn.adafruit.com](https://learn.adafruit.com/) a really good site for electronics and programming tutorials, especially for beginners
* [instructables](https://learn.adafruit.com/) more and more DIY tutorials, sometimes aren't good but there's a lot
* [MDEF-FABLAB CRASH COURSE](https://hackmd.io/@fablabbcn/crashcourse)
* [MDEF Pre-Course Documentation](https://fablabbcn-projects.gitlab.io/learning/precourse/#electronics_coding/introduction/)
* [From Bits to Atoms 2018-19](https://bitsandatoms.gitlab.io/site/)
* [Fab Academy](http://fabacademy.org/)
* [Fab Foundation](https://www.fabfoundation.org/)
* [Fab Academy BCN](http://fab.academany.org/2018/labs/barcelona/local/general/)
* [Fab Zero](https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/fabzero/fabzero)
* [Daniel Armengol Altayo](http://fabacademy.org/archives/2015/eu/students/armengol_altayo.daniel/htm/18.html)
* [Machines that Make](http://mtm.cba.mit.edu/)
* [Designing Reality](http://designingreality.org/)

### Videos

**The list will grow during the workshop!**

:warning: Warning! Do not try to watch them all! Simply choose a topic you like and jump over the videos. Maybe you find something interesting and suddenly want to learn more about it.

### A brief history of information and computers

* [Information Theory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ASFxKS9sg&list=PLP6PHJ8SLR6D4ytpHhZBdylPNcazU5m7o)
* [More on information Theory and Coding (for those who enjoyed the videos above)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckpKAj1_88VS-8Z6yn9zX_P6)
* [How computers think](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRDvLACg5Q)
* [Why we use binary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thrx3SBEpL8)
* [How computers work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN9wNvEnn-Q)
* [How computer memory works the insides](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XETZoRYdtkw&t=6s)
* [Colossus the first electronic computer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knXWMjIA59c)
* [How they design the computers they landed astronauts to the moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ1O0XR_cA0)
* [UNIX or what an operative system does](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0)
* [Looking at how things are built and work to learn how to design](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHsy89OdSxBajult8e5srVLA)
* [An introduction to Arduino towards future assignments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h1m6R9YW8c)

### How everyday machines work?

_Washing machines, cars, fridges, vacum cleaners..._

* [The Secret Life of Machines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpNQQqdSh8&list=PLByTa5duIolYRtq45Cz_GmtzfWJyA4bik)

### Artifacts

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/132609771" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/132609771">The random user</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/monobo">MONOBO</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

*The random user - Arturo Melero


*Bryan Cera-Useless Machines*


<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l_PpfoZ0tBk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[*Desktop Makes*](https://www.desktopmakes.com/single-post/2017/05/23/Twist-Vase-Useless-Machine)

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Lm48xH6PaY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

*Peter Fischli and David Weiss, The Way Things Go, 1987. Video projection.*

*2009-2010, Mixed media, 78 x 53 x 26 cm. Wim Devoye, Cloaca Travel Kit, 2009-1*

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-iL96ucOpRw" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

*Machine with Ball Chain - Arthur Ganson*

## FACULTY

* Guillem Camprodon
* Victor Barberan
* Santi Fuentemilla
* Eduardo Chamorro
* Josep Martí
* Mikel Llobera
* Óscar González
* Xavi Domínguez