Lingyu Yue

Principles and Practices

Week 1. Plan and sketch a potential final project.

Project Management

Week 2. Build a personal site describing me and the final project. Upload it to the class archive.

Computer-Aided Design

Week 3. Model a possible final project, and post it on class page with original 2D and 3D files.

Computer-Controlled Cutting

Week 4. Lasercut and vinylcut, design and make a parametric press-fit construction kit, which can be assembled in multiple ways.

Electronics Production

Week 5. Make an in-circuit programmer by milling the PCB.

3D Scanning and Printing

Week 6. Design and 3D print an object that could not be made subtractively, 3D scan an object.

Electronics Design

Week 7. Redraw the echo hello-world board, add a button and LED (with current-limiting resistor), check the design rules, and make it.

Computer-Controlled Machining

Week 8. Make something big (on a CNC machine).

Embedded Programming

Week 9. Read a microcontroller data sheet, program a board to do something.

Molding and Casting

Week 10. Design a 3D mould, machine it, and cast parts from it.

Input Devices

Week 11. Measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board designed and read it.

Output Devices

Week 12. Design and add an output device to a microcontroller board and read it.

Applications and Implications

Week 13. Propose a final project masterpiece.

Networking and Communications

Week 14. design, build, and connect wired or wireless node(s) with network or bus addresses

Mechanical Design

Week 15. - design a machine that includes mechanism+actuation+automation - build the mechanical parts and operate it manually - document the group project and your individual contribution

Interface and application programming

Week 16. write an application that interfaces a user with an input &/or output device that you made

Machine design

Week 17. - actuate and automate your machine

Wildcard week

Week 18. Design and produce something with a digital fabrication process

Invention, intellectual property, and income

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

Project Development

Week 20. Complete your final project.