Introducing a K-12 Mechatronic NIME Kit

Kyriakos Tsoukalas, and Ivica Ico Bukvic

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

The following paper introduces a new mechatronic NIME kit that uses new additions to the Pd-L2Ork visual programing environment and its K-12 learning module. It is designed to facilitate the creation of simple mechatronics systems for physical sound production in K-12 and production scenarios. The new set of objects builds on the existing support for the Raspberry Pi platform to also include the use of electric actuators via the microcomputer's GPIO system. Moreover, we discuss implications of the newly introduced kit in the creative and K-12 education scenarios by sharing observations from a series of pilot workshops, with particular focus on using mechatronic NIMEs as a catalyst for the development of programing skills.

Citation:

Kyriakos Tsoukalas, and Ivica Ico Bukvic. 2018. Introducing a K-12 Mechatronic NIME Kit. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1302553

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Tsoukalas2018,
 abstract = {The following paper introduces a new mechatronic NIME kit that uses new additions to the Pd-L2Ork visual programing environment and its K-12 learning module. It is designed to facilitate the creation of simple mechatronics systems for physical sound production in K-12 and production scenarios. The new set of objects builds on the existing support for the Raspberry Pi platform to also include the use of electric actuators via the microcomputer's GPIO system. Moreover, we discuss implications of the newly introduced kit in the creative and K-12 education scenarios by sharing observations from a series of pilot workshops, with particular focus on using mechatronic NIMEs as a catalyst for the development of programing skills.},
 address = {Blacksburg, Virginia, USA},
 author = {Kyriakos Tsoukalas and Ivica Ico Bukvic},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1302553},
 editor = {Luke Dahl, Douglas Bowman, Thomas Martin},
 isbn = {978-1-949373-99-8},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {206--209},
 publisher = {Virginia Tech},
 title = {Introducing a K-12 Mechatronic NIME Kit},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2018/nime2018_paper0046.pdf},
 year = {2018}
}