Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers

Tom Igoe teaches courses in physical computing and networking at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In his teaching and research, he explores ways to allow digital technologies to sense and respond to a wide range of human physical expression. He coauthored Physical Computing: Sensing show more and Controlling the Physical World with Computers with Pan O'Sullivan, which has been adopted by numerous digital art and design schools around the world. He is a contributor to MAKE magazine and a cofounder of the Arduino open source microcontroller project. He hopes to someday to visit Svalbard and Antarctica. show less