Physical Computing

Precap

The term ‘physical computing’ started to spread in 2004 with the release of the book Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers by Dan O’Sullivan and Tom Igoe. To a certain amount it replaced the preceeding term ‘mechatronics’ used by engineers. Raspberry Pi series of boards that are either single-board computers (SBCs) or microcontroller unitys (MCU)consists of a .

The objective of this course is to develop basic skills using the Raspberry Pi Zero W single-board computer (SBC) with the Python 3 programming language. It is split into several sections, each with a focus on a different aspect of the different hardware interfacing standards that a shared amongs other SBCs and microcontroller units (MCU) like e.g. Arduino. The sections are: