lecture notes¶

this weeks lecture¶

System integration class is a new class. The goal is to integrate different fabrication processes in one design (specifically for final project).
A great presentation on user experiences is this presentation. The presentation itself is here on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/254518604 and here: https://vimeo.com/545454447.
Another presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsIZHReoaBk -> Neil on “How to fail at (almost) anything – stories about success coming from failure” - “My superpower is failure”
And this video: You need to fail well https://youtube.com/shorts/BWxjFGnHsyw?si=mip2iOl50D9hXo0t

DFM = design for manufacturing. A key principle. So that means:

use standard components
use methods that create shapes that don’t require lot of post processing
try to use as minimal adhesives as possible, use fasteners but not to much! Snaps with self aligning features are even better (flexures)
Minimize parts
select the fastest process (e.g. compare it to amount of products that need to be made)

So design the design to be usable and producible.

Create a bill of material directly from Kicad using this plugin: https://github.com/openscopeproject/InteractiveHtmlBom

Document how to produce and operate.

Fuzzing: give random inputs to your system. See if you can make it go crazy. Many security vulnerabilities are found this way.

The goal of good system integration is to prevent failure. In Neils lecture there’s a whole list of possible failures, called common failure modes.

Interesting documentaries on Design by Gary Hustwit: https://www.hustwit.com/ and Abstract: the art of design https://www.netflix.com/pt-en/title/80057883.

Assignment for this week: document how the final project is integrated. What are all the subsystems and systems and how are the integrated. A good example is https://archive.fabacademy.org/archives/2016/fablabtorino/students/440/project/P02/B2/electronics.html