Weekly Assignments:

Individual assignment:

• Design and document the system integration for your final project

Weekly Assignments:

Individual assignment:

• 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.

Brother PR680W Embroidery Machine

How The Process Is Not Covered In Other Assignments

The Brother PR680W embroidery machine was not covered in my other Fab Academy assignments because embroidery is a distinct digital fabrication process that differs from the subtractive, additive, or electronic manufacturing methods previously used. Unlike laser cutting, CNC machining, 3D printing, or PCB production, this workflow focuses on textile fabrication through programmable stitching. The process required converting a vector-based digital design into embroidery stitch data that could be interpreted by the machine, introducing a different type of toolpath generation and material interaction. Since none of my previous assignments involved computerized embroidery or textile-based digital manufacturing, this machine and workflow qualify as a new fabrication process explored specifically during Wildcard Week.

Weekly Assignments:

Individual assignment:

Applications and Implications:

Plan 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.

Weekly Assignments:

Individual assignment:

• Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.

• Complete your final project, tracking your progress

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?