Weekly Assignments:

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Group Assignment:

• Do your lab’s safety training

• Characterize your lasercutter’s focus, power, speed, rate, kerf, joint clearance and types.

• Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned.

Individual Assignments:

• Design, lasercut, and document a parametric construction kit, accounting for the lasercutter kerf, which can be assembled in multiple ways.

• Cut something on the vinyl cutter.

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Group assignment:

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

• Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned

Individual assignment:

• Browse through the datasheet for a microcontroller

• Write and test a program for an embedded system using a microcontroller to interact (with local input &/or output devices) and communicate (with remote wired or wireless connections)

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Group assignment:

• Test the design rules for your 3D printer(s)

• Document your work on the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned about characteristics of your printer(s)

Individual assignment:

• Document your work on the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned about characteristics of your printer(s)

• 3D scan an object (and optionally print it)

Weekly Assignments:

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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 logic analyzer)

• 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

Weekly Assignments:

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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 assignment:

• Make (design+mill+assemble) something big

This Week’s Idea

For this week I wanted to do something that I did when I was at 11th grade at AP Calculus AB class. So, we were studying over volume calculations of functions in calculus with integral. And, for that we did an activity over cross sections, which is shown in the image.