The Assignments

Principles and Practices

Week 1: Final project idea

Project management

Week 2: About using GIT and managing projects.

Computer-aided design

Week 3: Computer-aided 2D and 3D design

Computer-controlled cutting

Week 4: Parametric design and understanding kerf.

Electronics production

Week 5: Making a predesigned ISP programmer

3D scanning and printing

Week 6: To make something that can be made only additively.

Electronics Design

Week 7: Designing the first board

computer-controlled machining

Week 8: Making something BIG

embedded programming

Week 9: Programming the first board.

Molding and Casting

Week 10: To make a mold for casting.

Input Devices

Week 11: To make a board to read a sensor.

Output Devices

Week 12: Making a board to control something.

Interface and Application programming

Week 13: To control a board with a computer.

Networking and Comms

Week 14: To make several board that can talk to eachother.

Mechanical Design

Week 15: Designing the mechanics of a machine

Machine Design

Week 16: Making the mechanics into a working machine.

Wilcard week

Week 17: Composites - To make structural casts

Applications and Implications

Week 18: The application of the final project.

Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Week 19: The legal engineering of the final project.

Project Development

Week 20: Last details of the final project.