Microcontrollers in Music HCI Instruction: Reflections on our Switch to the Atmel AVR Platform

Scott Wilson, Michael Gurevich, Bill Verplank, and Pascal Stang

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Over the past year the instructors of the Human ComputerInteraction courses at CCRMA have undertaken a technology shift to a much more powerful teaching platform. Wedescribe the technical features of the new Atmel AVR basedplatform, contrasting it with the Parallax BASIC Stampplatform used in the past. The successes and failures ofthe new platform are considered, and some student projectsuccess stories described.

Citation

Scott Wilson, Michael Gurevich, Bill Verplank, and Pascal Stang. 2003. Microcontrollers in Music HCI Instruction: Reflections on our Switch to the Atmel AVR Platform. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176571

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Wilson2003,
 abstract = {Over the past year the instructors of the Human ComputerInteraction courses at CCRMA have undertaken a technology shift to a much more powerful teaching platform. Wedescribe the technical features of the new Atmel AVR basedplatform, contrasting it with the Parallax BASIC Stampplatform used in the past. The successes and failures ofthe new platform are considered, and some student projectsuccess stories described.},
 address = {Montreal, Canada},
 author = {Wilson, Scott and Gurevich, Michael and Verplank, Bill and Stang, Pascal},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 date = {22-24 May, 2003},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176571},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Microcontrollers, Music Controllers, Pedagogy, Atmel AVR, BASIC Stamp.},
 pages = {24--29},
 title = {Microcontrollers in Music HCI Instruction: Reflections on our Switch to the Atmel AVR Platform},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2003/nime2003_024.pdf},
 year = {2003}
}