Labs

The two labs, in weeks 3 and 7: what happens in each one, what to bring, and what leaves the room with you.

Two labs all semester, in weeks 3 and 7, and both are three hours of playing. That is not a joke and it is not a reward week: you are gathering first-hand observations of a machine you will be asked to rebuild in the week that follows, and a session of attentive play is the only way to get them.

Neither one is marked on how you played, machines and copies are provided, and if you cannot play there is a substitute that produces the same notes — see the policies page.

What leaves the room is the notes. Both labsexist to produce a document, and the week after each one is spent building something out of it.