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17. Applications and implications, project development

Schedule

  • 0: May 21: applications and implications, project development
  • May 26-: register free entrance tickets (-Jun 13)
  • 1: May 28: invention, intellectual property, and income
  • 2: Jun 4: weekly assignments due
    • submitted for review in nueval
  • 3: Jun 9,10,11,12,13: final project presentations
    • Jun 10 (Tue): Hayashi
    • Jun 11 (Wed): Ito
    • Jun 12 (Thu): Tokuyama
  • Jun 13: register Free entrance tickets (May26-)
  • 6: Jun 16: confirm the free ticket cut-off(1) CONDITIONAL GRADUATE 75% progress in LOCAL and GLOBAL EVAL in Nueval
  • Jun 16-20: student+local+global review meetings
  • 7: Jun 23: global eval decisions deadline
    • conditional grad: 75% local+global done
  • Jun 23: confirm the free ticket cut-off(2) GRADUATE
  • July 4-11: FAB25
  • July 7: Hybrid Graduation Ceremony

Assignment

Applications and Implications

Plan a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered, answering:
- What will it do?
- Who’s done what beforehand?
- What sources will you use?
- What will you design?
- What materials and components will be used?
- Where will 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?

Your project should incorporate 2D and 3D design,
additive and subtractive fabrication processes,
electronics design and production,
embedded microcontroller design, 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

BOM (Bill of Materials)

  • What materials and components will be used?
  • Where will come from?
  • How much will they cost?

Project Development

Prepare drafts of your final project summary slide
(presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip
(presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~25 MB),
put them in your root directory,
and check that they are linked in the final presentation schedule

Ref. Final project requirements

Summary slide

  • file name: presentation.png
  • size: 1920x1080 pixels
  • your name, project name, Fab Lab name
  • photo/render/sketch of your project
  • brief description of what your project is/does
  • “Fab Academy 2025”

Logos

logo.svg logo.png

Video clip

  • file name: presentation.mp4
  • 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~25 MB
  • explaining your project

ffmpeg: 

% 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

Your root directory

.
├── docs
│   ├── index.md
│   ├── presentation.mp4
│   ├── presentation.png

Check that they are linked in the final presentation schedule