Sketching in Hardware: Anders Sandell

Interactive toy design in India
Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology

teaching physical computing in Inida

sourcing electronics
- electrical components are easy to get, cheap and readily available
- but you have to find the right supplier
- more complex components, like the Arduino, are almost impossible to find and quite expensive

reflections
- teaching the right thing -- inadvertently spent more time on technology than design
- low success rate - many prototypes didn't function
- high cost to students

relevance and roadhumps
- how relevant is physical computing in a place where 600-800 million live below the poverty line?
- with repeated power outages?
- with poor air quality?

so. sketching without the hardware
moving to conditions of play and flow