Weekly assignments

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Week 1: Project management

1. download, read, and sign the student agreement, and commit the file to your repo ✅
2. work through a git tutorial ✅
3. build a personal site in the class archive describing you and your final project ✅

Week 2: CAD design

1. model (raster, vector, 2D, 3D, render, animate, simulate, …) a possible final project ⏳
2. compress your images and videos, ✅
3. and post a description with your design files on your class page ❌

Week 3: Computer-controlled machining

1. Individual assignment
   • cut something on the vinylcutter ✅
   • design, lasercut, and document a parametric construction kit, accounting for the lasercutter kerf ✅
   • extra credit: ❌
     • design it to be assembled in multiple ways
     • include elements that aren’t flat
     • engrave as well as cut
2. Group assignment: (link goes here)
   • do your lab’s safety training ✅
   • characterize your lasercutter’s focus, power, speed, rate, kerf, joint clearance and types ✅

Week 4: Embedded programming

1. Individual assignment
   • browse through the datasheet for your microcontroller ✅
   • write a program for a microcontroller development board to interact (with local input &/or output devices) and communicate (via wired or wireless connection) ✅
   • extra credit: assemble the system ✅
   • extra credit: try different languages &/or development environments ✅
2. Group assignment ✅
   • demonstrate and compare the toolchains and development workflows for available embedded architectures ✅