Thibault Chevreteau

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18 Jun 2019

Week 20: Project Development

Week assignments Individual assignment: Complete your final project tracking your progress. You can find my final project details here. What...

05 Jun 2019

Week 19: Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Week assignments Individual assignment: develop a plan for dissemination of your final project prepare drafts of your summary slide and...

26 May 2019

Week 18: Wildcard

Week assignments Individual assignment: Design and produce something with a digital fabrication process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered...

12 May 2019

Week 16: Interface and Application Programming

Week assignments Individual assignment: Write an application that interfaces with an input and/or output device that you made. Group assignment:...

03 May 2019

Week 15 & 17: Mechanical and Machine Design

Week assignments Mechanical Design (part 1 of 2) Individual assignment: Design a machine (mechanism + actuation + automation), including the...

28 Apr 2019

Week 14: Networking and communications

Week assignments Group assignment: Send a message between two projects (assignments made by different students) Individual assignment: design, build, and...

11 Apr 2019

Week 13: Apllications and Implications

Week assignments Propose a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered, answering: What will it do? Who's...

09 Apr 2019

Week 12: Output Devices

Week assignments Group assignment Measure the power consumption of an output device Individual assignments Add an output device to a...

03 Apr 2019

Week 11: Input test Devices

Week assignments Group assignment probe an input device's analog levels and digital signals Individual assignments Measure something: add a sensor...

26 Mar 2019

Week 10: Molding and Casting

Week assignments Group assignment Review the safety data sheets for each of your molding and casting materials Make and compare...

18 Mar 2019

Week 9: Embedded Programming

Week assignments Group assignment Compare the performance and development workflows for other architectures Individual assignments Read a microcontroller data sheet....

09 Mar 2019

Week 8: Computer-Controlled Machining

Week assignments Group assignment Test runout, alignment, speeds, feeds, and toolpaths for your machine Individual assignments Make something big on...

01 Mar 2019

Week 7: Electronics design

Week assignments Group assignment Use the test equipment in your lab to observe the operation of a microcontroller circuit board...

24 Feb 2019

Week 6: 3D Scanning and Printing

Week assignments Group assignment Test the design rules for your printer(s) Individual assignments Design and 3D print an object (small,...

19 Feb 2019

Week 5: electronics production

Week assignments Group assignment Characterize the design rules for your PCB production process Individual assignments Make an in-circuit programmer by...

12 Feb 2019

Week 4: computer-controlled cutting

Week assignments Group assignment Characterize your lasercutter, making test part(s) that vary cutting settings and dimensions Individual assignments Design, lasercut,...

27 Jan 2019

Week 3: computer-aided design

Week assignments Model experimental objects/part of a possible project in 2D and 3D software Show how you do it with...

26 Jan 2019

Week 2: principles and practices

Week assignments Introduce yourself Sign and upload Student Agreement Make a website and describe how you did it Document steps...

26 Jan 2019

Week 1: principles and practices

Week assignments Sketch your final project idea Describe what it will do and who will use it About my final...