General electronics
Perry Cook's
COS
436 handout on electricity/electronics basics
Wikipedia
on resistor color coding, online
resistor
code calculator
Decoding
capacitor codes
Analyzing
resistive circuits using Ohm's law
Sparkfun tutorial:
How
to use a multimeter
Arduino
About
the Arduino Uno
Arduino
tutorial at Adafruit.com
10 ways
to destroy an arduino (don't do them!)
Places to buy hardware/parts
"User-friendly" sites:
Sparkfun
Adafruit
"Professional" sites:
Digikey
Mouser
Allied
Electronics
Jameco
Electronics
Handy software tools
draw.io: A free web app for
making GUI sketches, circuit diagrams, and more
Balsamiq: A mockup /
wireframing tool, available free for you as a member of the
class (details will be posted on Piazza)
Quicktime
instructions for capturing video and audio from your
screen on OS X
Books
The
Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Interaction
Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction by Sharp,
Rogers, and Price
Making
Things Talk: Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to See,
Hear, and Feel Your World by Tom Igoe
Programming
Interactivity by Joshua Noble (This is available free to
you via Safari Techbooks!)
Project-based HCI courses at other universities (check
out the homepages for project inspiration!)
Interactive Device Design @ UC Berkeley
Theory
and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces @ UC Berkeley
User
Interface Design @ UC Berkeley (2012 offering used
Kinect for all projects)
Applied
Gadgets, Sensors, and Activity Recognition in HCI @
Carnegie Mellon
(No course homepage, but google/youtube for
05-833 for some cool project videos!)
More resources coming soon.