"The Claytroller

Goal: I wanted to provide simple connectable building blocks that make complex computer/console interfaces accessible to novices.

Tools: Camm vinyl cutter or Modela mini-mill or Chemical etcher, soldering iron, Eagle, cam.py

Media: LCD displays

Goal: make boards that displays a text messages on  LCD screens or TVs

Tools: Resonetics UV Excimer Laser

Media: metal

Goal: make something really small

Tools: Camm vinyl cutter or Modela mini-mill or Chemical etcher, soldering iron, Eagle, cam.py, C-to-AVR stuff

Media: copper adhesive tape, epoxy film, phenolin sheet or CEM PCB

Goal: create a project using Internet 0 style "click" communication

Tools: Camm vinyl cutter or Modela mini-mill, soldering iron, Eagle, cam.py

Media: stepper motors, electronic components, copper adhesive tape, epoxy film, phenolin sheet or CEM PCB board, a battery pack or wall adapter

Goal: drive stepper motors using the kinds of circuit boards used in week2 and week4.

Tools: injection mold machine, vacuum forming machine

Media: ABS plastic, pet-G thermal plastic

Goal: make a model of something by injecting ABS plastic into an aluminum mold

Tools: Feature Cam 2004, Hass CNC super mini-mill and appropriate drill bits

Media: aluminum block

Goal: operate a powerful CNC mill to create a mold of a shape that will be used an  injection mold machine

Tools: Camm vinyl cutter, soldering iron, Eagle, cam.py

Media: copper adhesive tape, epoxy film, phenolin sheet

Goal: use a vinyl cutter to cut traces of a circuit board. The traces can then be transferred to another surface such as epoxy. The circuit on the epoxy can be stuck to any surface and withstand the heat of a soldering iron when electronic components are being placed on the board. The board that can be programmed (through a custom parallel port cable) to sense capacitance and resistance of items near the board. The sensed values can be sent to a computer to control things that happen on the screen.

-Scanning

-Printing

Tools: GeoMagic, Minolta Laser Scanner w/ turntable, ZCorp 3D printer, ZCorp 3D printer software

Media: plastic toy bone to scan, plaster dust to build replica from

Goal: scan and print an object

Microcontrollers

Tools: Modela mini-mill, soldering iron, Eagle, cam.py

Media: CEM PCB, surface-mount electronic components

Goal: stuff a small surface- mount circuit board that can be programmed (through a custom parallel port cable) to send text messages to a computer monitor (through custom serial cable)

Make a structure that holds itself together without adhesives

Tools: laser cutter, sDraw, cam.py

Media: acrylic

Goal: make a hand-scale press-fit object more complex than a cube but not impossible for youth to make

Model a potential final project

Tools: Blender

Goal: customizable computer input device