Week 13

Application and Implication

MOOD OF THE WEEK

This week we have to define what is our final project, and how we plan to disseminate it, how much will it costs, etc

Not so easy coz I don't have a clear idea of what I want to do, but still a good exercise to help me scope my ideas !

Let's put this into words and see what happens :)

Application and Implication

This week's assignments :

    Group assignment
  • No group assignments
    Han Solo assignments :
  • Propose a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered, answering questions (they are in the page if you want to find them)

Here is the link to the Fabacademy schedule page of the week

Han Solo Assignment

Here are the questions that I have to answer in this page :

  • what will it do?
  • who has done what beforehand?
  • What will you design?
  • what materials and components will be used?
  • where will they come from?
  • how much will they cost?
  • what parts and systems will be made?
  • what processes will be used?
  • what questions need to be answered?
  • how will it be evaluated?

What will it do?

My idea is the following : making a wooden art book, that can be read as it is, but you can also detach the pages so you can share them in class and read it with several different people. And why not make your own book after that ? But let's not get ahead, and let me show you how I made it and how I came to this idea :)

Here is a drawing of a slide presentation for this idea.

A lil' update : here is the slide I'm actually gonna show. More or less the same but a bit different. I'll let you see by yourself :)

As a first prototype, I'll turn at least one page into an interactive one with a button and some leds, and if I have time I'll make a charlieplexing led circuit too.

Who's done what beforehand?

I know I want to do something with the laser cutter, since it's my favorite machine in the fablab. As I was looking for inspiration online, here are the two links that helped me shape my project :

Name of the website Link
Wooden Puzzle Book https://odditymall.com/wooden-puzzle-book
Gabriel Schama https://www.gabrielschama.com/

From my drawing and those two links, I got the idea of the wooden book that can be turned into an art exhibition. Later on I'll do it about more women, but for this final project I'm gonna focus on making an hommage to Grace Hopper :)

What will you design?

Everything :) I'm gonna go from the drawings I made with pen and paper, to computer design and back to the pysical world in wood and circuits.

I'm mainly gonna use the laser cutter, but the idea is also to be able to integrate some 3D printing in one of the page.

What materials and components will be used?

For the pages

  • 4 boards of plywood (30 by 60 cm)
  • 1 board of transparent PMMA (30 by 60 cm)
  • 1 board of black PMMA (30 by 60 cm)
  • 1 m wooden stick (sawed in 3 pieces for the 3 pages)

For the charlieplexing circuit

  • 1 X ATtiny84
  • 1 X ISP
  • 3 X 470 ohms resistors
  • 6 X leds (3 white and 3 orange)
  • 1 X button
  • 1 X voltage regulator

Where will they come from and how much did it cost ?

I bought the plywood in a wood store close to the Fablab called Bois Détail Compas.

I payed 24 euros for the plywood, the PMMA board I found them in the fablab.

The components were ordered on the website Mouser Electronics.

All the components costed more or less 4,3 €.

What parts and systems will be made?

I will mill the Charlieplexing board with the Roland SRM20 we have in the Fablab, use the laser cutter for the plywood and PMMA. I'll also use the Ultimaker 3 to make the 3D parts.

The whole thing together will form the different pages and the book.

What processes will be used?

As explained earlier, I'll use the laser cutter for the book and the Roland SRM20 to mill the circuits. I'll also use the Ultimaker 3 to make the different 3D parts.

What questions need to be answered?

With this project, I need to answer the following questions :

  • Does this project show my skills, and as much possible of what I learnt those past few months ?
  • Is it fun and pretty, but still people can learn some stuff from it ?
  • Does it show one or more of my engagements/values in the digital community?

More technically, I need to answer the following questions :

  • Is there an input and an output on at least one of the pages ?
  • Did I use 2D and 3D softwares to make it ?

How do I plan to be evaluated ?

I can see several points on how this project can be evaluated :

  • Is there an input and an output on at least one of the pages ?
  • Did I use 2D and 3D softwares to make it ?

My response to those evaluation points is the following :

  • Is there an input and an output on at least one of the pages? Yes ! In page 2 of the book, there is a Charlieplexing circuit to light up the little computer illustrated.
  • Did I use 2D and 3D softwares to make it ? Yes ! The book was made in Inkscape, and brackets to help the book stay still were made in Tinkercad.