THE CENTER FOR BITS AND ATOMS
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL - MEDELLIN
FAB LAB UNAL MEDELLIN
Weekly Assignments
W1_Principles and Practices
Assignment: Build a personal site describing you and your final project, plan and sketch a potential semester project.
W2_Computer-Aided Design
Assignment: Model (draw, render, animate, simulate, ...) a possible final project, and post it on your class page.
W3_Computer-Controlled Cutting
Assignment: Design, make, and document a press-fit construction kit.
W4_Electronics Production
Assignment: Make the FabISP in-circuit programmer.
W5_3D Scanning and Printing
Assignment: Design and 3D print an object (small, few cm) that could not be made subtractively. 3D scan an object (and optionally print it).
W6_Electronics Design
Assignment: Redraw the echo hello-world board, add (at least) a button and LED (with current-limiting resistor) check the design rules, and make it. Extra credit: simulate its operation.
W7_Embedded Programming
Assignment: Read a microcontroller data sheet program your board to do something, with as many different programming languages and programming environments as possible.
W8_Computer-Controlled Machining
Assignment: Make something big.
W9_Molding and Casting
Assignment: Design a 3D mold, machine it, and cast parts from it.
W10_Input Devices
Assignment: Measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you've designed and read it.
W11_Output Devices
Assignment: Add an output device to a microcontroller board you've designed and program it to do something
W12_Composites
Assignment: Design and make a 3D mold (~ft2), and produce a fiber composite part in it
W13_Networking and Communications
Assignment: Design and build a wired &/or wireless network connecting at least two processors.
W14_Mechanical Design, Machine Design
Group Assignment:Make a machine, including the end effector, build the passive parts and operate it manually document the group project and your individual contribution.
W15_Interface and Application Programming
Assignment: Write an application that interfaces with an input &/or output device.
W16_Applications and Implications
Assignment: Plan and document a final project that integrates the range of units covered.
W17_Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income
Assignment: Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
W18_Project Development
Assignment: Complete your final project, tracking your progress.
W19_Project Presentation
Assignment: Document a final project that integrates the range of units covered, answering:
Final Slide
Assignment: Make a final slide for your final project that integrates the range of units covered.