Remaining Schedule
Week 6, Electronics Design (2/25-3/4)
Group assignment:
Use the test equipment in your lab to observe the operation of a microcontroller circuit board (as a minimum, you should demonstrate the use of a multimeter and oscilloscope) Document your work on the group work page and reflect what you learned on your individual page Individual assignment:
Use an EDA tool to design a development board that uses parts from the inventory to interact and communicate with an embedded microcontroller
Week 7, Computer-Controlled Machining (3/5-3/11)
Group assignment:
Complete your lab’s safety training Test runout, alignment, fixturing, speeds, feeds, materials and toolpaths for your machine Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned Individual project
Make (design+mill+assemble) something big
Week 8, Electronics Production (3/12-3/18)
Group assignment:
Characterize the design rules for your in-house PCB production process: document feeds, speeds, plunge rate, depth of cut (traces and outline) and tooling. Document the workflow for sending a PCB to a boardhouse Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned
Individual assignment:
Make and test a microcontroller development board that you designed
Week 9, Input Devices (3/19-3/25)
Group assignment:
Probe an input device(s)'s analog levels and digital signals Document your work on the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned Individual assignment:
Measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you have designed and read it.
Week 10, Output Devices (3/26-4/1)
Group assignment:
Measure the power consumption of an output device. Document your work on the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned. Individual assignment:
Add an output device to a microcontroller board you’ve designed and program it to do something.
Week 11, Embedded Networking and Communications (4/2-4/8)
Group assignment:
Send a message between two projects Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned
Individual assignment:
design, build and connect wired or wireless node(s) with network or bus addresses and a local input and/or output devices
Week 12, Mechanical Design, Machine Design (4/9-4/15)
Mechanical Design (part 1 of 2) Group assignment:
Design a machine that includes mechanism + actuation + automation + application Build the mechanical parts and operate it manually Document the group project Individual assignment:
Document your individual contribution Machine Design (part 2 of 2) Group assignment:
Actuate and automate your machine Document the group project
Individual assignment:
Document your individual contribution
Week 13, Mid Term Review (4/16-4/22)
On your final project site post a system diagram for your project, list the tasks to be completed, make a schedule for doing them, and meet with your local and global instructors to review these and your weekly assignments.
Week 14, Molding and Casting (4/23-4/29)
Group assignment:
Review the safety data sheets for each of your molding and casting materials Make and compare test casts with each of them Compare printing vs milling molds Individual assignment:
Design a mold around the process you’ll be using, produce it with a smooth surface finish that does not show the production process, and use it to cast parts.
Week 15, Interface and Application Programming (4/30-5/6)
Group assignment:
Compare as many tool options as possible. Document your work on the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned. Individual assignment
Write an application for the embedded board that you made. that interfaces a user with an input and/or output device(s)
Week 16,System Integration (5/7-5/13)
Design and document the system integration for your final project
Week 17,Wildcard Week (5/14-5/20)
Design and produce something with a digital process (incorporating computer aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, documenting the requirements that your assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it. Possibilities include but are not limited to wildcard week examples.
Week 18,Applications and Implications, Project Development (5/21-5/27)
Applications and Implications: Propose a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered.
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.
See Final Project Requirements for a complete list of requirements you must fulfil.
The answers to the questions in the checklist will allow you to create your BOM (Bill Of Materials).
Project Development Complete your final project tracking your progress.
Week 19,Invention, Intellectual Property and Income (5/28-6/3)
Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project. Prepare drafts of your summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~25 MB) and put them in your website’s root directory
Week 20,Final project requirements (6/4-6/10)
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.
Strategy
Tough Weeks
6- 2 birthdays and soccer game 8- overnight 12- Reptile/ Plant show 18- Mem Day
Get Ahead Weeks
Might not be any
Combine Electronics
Design circuit in week 6 that has input/output devices and networking that can also be used to complete assignments
6-design 8-production 9-input 10-output 11- networking 12- automation 15- app programming
Ultimate XIAO PCB
Inputs- Buttons Analog (1) light/moisture I2C (temp, etc) waterproof ds18 (multiplexable) Outputs Display (I2C) Neopixels digital servo motor driver
Final Project Skedge
Concept Modeling
Complete by EO March
Figure out the featureset that makes sense
Test: Flare production Halo production Prismatic effects Ring lighting Sqishy LED halos
Figure out what LEDs work for flare Find a good way to make rainbow projections See if can get good light through silicone/ stretchy stuff
Use 6,8,9,10 for additional testing
Design Layout
Finalize by 4/15
Build Design Brief LED specs Controller spec Control scheme General system layout Power requirements
Engineering
Start on 4/16
CAD design PCB Design BOMs Order lists Complete by 5/15
Build
5/15-the end
Build the thing
Technical Debt/ Risks
Finding good LED for flare Getting a small enough prism