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20. Project development

Congratulations, you have reached the point of working on your Final Project. This is your opportunity to demonstrate synthesis of skills you developed in the previous weeks.

Document a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered, answering:

What does it do?
Who’s done what beforehand?
What did you design?
What sources did you use?
What materials and components were used?
Where did they come from?
How much did they cost?
What parts and systems were made?
What processes were used?
What questions were answered?
What worked? What didn’t?
How was it evaluated?
What are the implications?
Prepare a summary slide and a one minute video showing its conception, construction, and operation. Your project should incorporate 2D and 3D design, additive and subtractive fabrication processes, electronics design and production, embedded microcontroller interfacing and programming, system integration and packaging.

Where possible, you should make rather than buy the parts of your project. Projects can be separate or joint, but need to show individual mastery of the skills, and be independently operable. Present your final project.

Research

This week I…

  • Created my own integrated design (Different digital fabrication processes are integrated to a product)
  • Demonstrated 2D & 3D modelling competencies applied to my own designs
  • Select and apply appropriate additive and subtractive fabrication processes
  • Demonstrate competence in design, fabrication and programming of my own fabbed microcontroller PCB, including an input & output
  • Demonstrate techniques and applications in system integration

Assessment Checklist:

  • [] Made your slide

    1920 x 1080 pixels with your name, project name, Fab Lab name, a photo/render/sketch of your project, a brief description of what your project is/does

  • [] Made a ~1 minute (25MB/1080p) video of you explaining your project
  • [] Made a separate Final Project page that summarises/documents your project
  • [] Included the BOM (Bill of Materials) for your project
  • [] Linked from this page to any weeks that you worked on your final project
  • [] Documented how you implemented system integration in your final project
  • [] Linked to your presentation.png and presentation.mp4; make sure they are located to the root of your website
  • [] Included all of your original design files in the archive (2D & 3D, board files & code). No external hosting of final project files - discuss file sizes with your instructor
  • [] Included the license you chose
  • [] Acknowledged work done by others