Mariam Daghbashyan

• 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

group assignment:

• do your lab's safety training
• characterize your lasercutter's focus, power, speed, rate, kerf, joint clearance and types

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
• extra credit: include elements that aren't flat
• extra credit: engrave as well as cut

group assignment:

• demonstrate and compare the toolchains and development workflows
• for available embedded architectures

individual assignment:

• browse through the data sheet for a microcontroller
• write and test a program for an embedded system using a microcontroller to interact (with input &/or output devices) and communicate (with wired or wireless connections)
• extra credit: assemble the system
• extra credit: try different languages &/or development environments