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12. mechanical design, machine design

Midterm

Midterm Review

On your final project site post a system diagram for your project,
list the tasks to be completed,
make a schedule for doing them,
meet with your local and global instructors
to review these and your weekly assignments.

Global review meeting

  • TOKYO, Japan

    • 10:00 Sun, Apr 13 2025 @Kannai
    • 12:00 Sun, Apr 13 2025

  • LIMA, Peru

    • 20:00 Sat, Apr 12 2025
    • 22:00 Sat, Apr 12 2025

Mechanical design

Group assignment

  • design a machine that includes mechanism+actuation+automation+application

mechanism: things that move
actuation: make it move
automation: control of what’s making it move
application: what it’s moving for

Group assignment

  • build the mechanical parts and operate it manually

Group assignment

  • document the group project and your individual contribution
.
├── docs
│   ├── Machine_Building
│   │   ├── code
│   │   ├── design
│   │   ├── images
│   │   │   ├── presentation.mp4
│   │   │   └── presentation.png
│   │   └── index.md

presentation.png

  • summary slide (1920x1080)
  • logo.svg logo.png

presentation.mp4

  • video clip (1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~25 MB)
% ffmpeg -i input_video -vcodec libx264 -crf 25 -preset medium -vf scale=-2:1080 -acodec libmp3lame -q:a 4 -ar 48000 -ac 2 output_video.mp4

Role/Project management

  • docs
  • video making
  • presenter (Apr 23, 1 min/lab, order)

Machine design

Group assignment

  • actuate and automate your machine
  • document the group project and your individual contribution

Machine

Reference