August

 

Week 1

Tuesday August 26

 

Thursday August 28

  • Discussion of John Philip Sousa quote
  • Discussion of video RW Culture
  • team photos

 

Week 2

Tuesday September 2

  • Finish RW video (sec 1 minute 7; sec 2 minute 30)
  • Discussion of video RW Culture
  • Discussion of comic
  • blogging
    • first blog due b4 midnight.

 

Thursday September 4

  • Discussion of Free Culture ch1-5.
  • Discussion of TED video (watch it here at the Ted Site before class)

 

Week 3

Tuesday September 9

  • Puzzler - what do these have in common?
  • Blogging
    • Team meetings to discuss assigned readings (for blog)
    • review of latest blog entries
    • where to find articles & blogs related to class
    • commenting
  • Free Culture discussion

 

Thursday September 11

 

Week 4

Tuesday September 16

  • review of recent blog posts
  • finish remix (using Audacity)
  • present & play remixes to class. Presentation includes
    • play one minute or so of original mp3.
    • play the other audio samples used. explain what hacking was done to them & who did the hacking.
    • play remix
    • total time 5-7 minutes.
  • section 2: discussion of Matt Mason ch. 3
  • class presentation discussion.
    • 7-10 minutes
    • presentation software encouraged (and demos)
    • not everyone on team needs to present, but at the end of the talk you need to list credits--who did what.
  • reverse engineering, circuit bending, hardware hacking

 

Thursday September 18

  • vote on mp3s
  • listening assignment Andrew ‘Bunnie’ Huang - please listen to this before class
  • Discussion on circuit bending
    • Please look at some youtube videos on circuit bending; check out some circuit bending mp3s, or read a bit about it. This will make the discussion more fun.
  • reverse engineering continued

 

Week 5

Tuesday September 23

  • Further discussion on hacking the xbox
  • Hacking the PC

 

Thursday September 25

  • Discussion chapters 1-2 of Pirate's Dilemma
  • xBox hacking (section 1)
  • article presentations (section 2)
  • voting for remixes

 

Week 6

Tuesday September 30