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Week 01:
Project Management

Build a personal site in the class archive describing you and your final project.

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Week 02:
Computer-Aided Design

Model (draw, render, animate, simulate, ...) a possible final project, and post it on your class page.

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Week 03:
Computer-Controlled Cutting

design, make, and document a press-fit construction kit.

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Week 04:
Electronics Production

Make the FabISP in-circuit programmer.


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Week 05:
3D Scanning and Printing

Test the design rules for your printer(s). Design and 3D print an object (small, few cm) that could not be made subtractively. 3D scan an object (and optionally print it).

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Week 06:
Electronics Design

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.

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Week 07:
Computer-Controlled Machining

Make something big.
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Week 08:
Embedded Programming

Read a microcontroller data sheet. Program your board to do something, with as many different programming languages and programming environments as possible.
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Week 09 + 10:
Mechanical Design and Machine Design

Make a machine, including the end effector. Build the passive parts and operate it manually. Automate your machine. Document the group project and your individual contribution.
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Week 11:
Input Devices

Measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you have designed and read it.
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Week 12:
Molding and Casting

Design a 3D mold, machine it, and cast parts from it.
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Week 13:
Output Devices

Add an output device to a microcontroller board you've designed and program it to do something.

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Week 14:
Composites

Design and make a 3D mold (~ft2), and produce a fiber composite part in it.
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Week 15 + 16:

Networking and Communications

Interface and Application Programming
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Week 17:
Applications and Implications

Propose a final project that integrates the range of units covered. Projects can be separate or joint, but need to show individual mastery of all of the skills where possible, you should make rather than buy the parts of your project.
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Week 18:
Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
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Week 19:
Final Project

Document the final project.
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Extra:
Vinyl Cutting
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