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1. Principles and Practices

plan and sketch a potential final project

Feb 26, 2022

2. Project management

work through a git tutorial build a personal site in the class archive describing you and your final project

3. Computer Aided design

model (raster, vector, 2D, 3D, render, animate, simulate, ...) a possible final project,compress your images and videos,and post a description with your design files on your class page

5. Electronics Production

make an in-circuit programmer that includes a microcontroller: extra credit: customize the design mill and stuff the PCB test it to verify that it works extra credit: try other PCB processes

Feb 15, 2021

6. 3D Scanning and Printing

- design and 3D print an object (small, few cm3, limited by printer time) that could not be made subtractively - 3D scan an object (and optionally print it)

4. Computer-Controlled Cutting

cut something on the vinylcutter design, lasercut, and document a parametric construction kit, accounting for the lasercutter kerf, which can be assembled in multiple ways, and for extra credit include elements that aren't flat

8. Computer controlled machining

make (design+mill+assemble) something big (~meter-scale) extra credit: don't use fasteners or glue extra credit: include curved surfaces

7. Electronics design

redraw an echo hello-world board, add (at least) a button and LED (with current-limiting resistor) check the design rules, make it, and test that it can communicate extra credit: simulate its operation

10. Molding and casting

design a mold around the stock and tooling that you'll be using, mill it (rough cut + (at least) three-axis finish cut), and use it to cast parts

9. Embedded programming

read the data sheet for your microcontroller use your programmer to program your board to do something extra credit: try other programming languages and development environments

11. Output Devices

add an output device to a microcontroller board you've designed, and program it to do something

12.Machine design

- design a machine that includes mechanism+actuation+automation - build the mechanical parts and operate it manually - document the group project and your individual contribution

14. Networking and communications

design, build, and connect wired or wireless node(s) with network or bus addresses

13. Input Devices

measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you have designed and read it

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