Carolina Portugal - Fab Academy

Week Zero:

For this week plan and sketch a potential final project.

Week one:

My first week was full of problems because my computer crashed twice causing me to lose all my website design. But after a few attempts i was able to design and upload my website to be my personal site in the class archive.

Week two:

For this week i model a simple version of a idea of my possible final project.

Week three:

This part of the program that it´s my area. I worked in Sao Paulo with laser cut and worked at other places with CNC router. This week half of the assignment was in group where we had to do lasercutter test of the cutting settings and dimensions and cut somenthign on the vinyl cutting. And the other part of the assignment was to make a parametric press-fit construction kit.

Week four:

This week i made an in-circuit programmer by milling the PCB

Week five:

This week we had 3 assignments : the group assignment (Test the design rules for your printer), the scan assigment (3D scan an object) and the 3D print assignment (Design and 3D print an object that could not be made subtractively).

Week six:

For this week I designed my microcontroller circuit board based on the hello-world board.

Week seven:

This week the assignments was do something big. We had to learn how to use the CNC router and test runout, alignment, speeds, feeds, and toolpaths of it.

Week eight:

For this week i had to program the microcontroller circuit board wich i designed.

Week nine:

For this week i had to design a 3D mould around the stock and tooling that i used, machined it, and used it to cast parts from it.

Week ten:

For this week I had to measure something; adding a sensor to a microcontroller board that i designed.

Week eleven:

For this week i had add an output device to a microcontroller board i designed, and programed it.

Week twelve:

For this assigment i wrote an application that interfaces with an input device that i made.

Week thirteen:

For this assigment i design and build a wired network connecting processors.

Week fourteen and fifteen:

For this assigment we made a drawing machine.

Week Sixteen:

For this week i design and produce composite bowl with a digital fabrication process (laser cut, CNC , vacuum machine )

Week seventeen:

Propose a final project that integrates the range of units covered.

Week eighteen:

Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project