intro to arduino | make a kinetic sculpture

In this workshop we’ll introduce Breadboarding + circuit concepts Arduino IDE, flashing Arduino Intro to coding, AI vibecoding Outputs (LEDs, motors (servo/steppers), including power requirements) Sensors/inputs (buttons, ultrasonic/presence sensors) Basics of troubleshooting (code + hardware/electronics) Participants will create and leave with a simple toothpick/paper origami kinetic sculpture that moves and/or glows in reaction to button presses, presence/movement, and/or light. All materials and electronics will be provided, and yours to keep. — who is this for? For artists who are interested in integrating microcontrollers and sensors into their work to allow for physical interactivity, but have no experience working with hardware/electronics ~ who's teaching this? Joy He is a designer and maker completing their MDes at UC Berkeley. Their work ranges from nuclear control rooms to silversmithed earpieces; and you will often find them in the shop yelling at the CNC machine. As a deaf cyborg, they are drawn to questions of what we trust our machines with. Alistair Vizuet is a mechanical engineer currently in the Master of Design program at UC Berkeley. Pivoting from a career in machine repair and maintenance, their practice revolves around found objects, sustainability and repairability, and emerging tech skepticism. -- This event is presented alongside our latest exhibition at tiat, The Epistemologies of Slop, an exhibition exploring how meaning, trust, and culture are produced under conditions of algorithmic excess and generative media. tiat is the intersection of art & technology! we are gallery for creative technologists to experiment, exhibit, and expand their practice. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ tiat is 501c3 nonprofit, our EIN is: 39-3448606. follow us on insta!