Assignments

Weekly assignments

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

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

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
Group assignment: (link goes here)
- do your lab’s safety training ✅
- characterize your lasercutter’s focus, power, speed, rate, kerf, joint clearance and types ✅

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 ✅
Group assignment ✅
- demonstrate and compare the toolchains and development workflows for available embedded architectures ✅

Individual assignment
- design, document, and 3D print an object that could not be made subtractively ✅
- 3D scan an object (and optionally print it) ✅
Group assignment ✅
- test the design rules for your 3D printer(s) ✅

Individual assignment
- simulate a circuit ✅
- use an EDA tool to design an embedded microcontroller system using parts from the inventory, and check its design rules for fabrication ✅
Group assignment ✅
- use the test equipment in your lab to observe the operation of an embedded microcontroller ✅