Hello world! My name is Patricia Stathatou.
I’m a visiting scholar at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, conducting research on removing heavy metals and drugs from water.
This week's assignments were a) to make a parametric cardboard construction kit, which can be assembled in multiple ways, on a laser cutter, and b) to cut something on the vinylcutter.
This week our assignmnet was to mill a printed circuit board (PCB), solder on it the relevant components and program it in order to make an in-circuit programmer.
This week we had to design and 3D print a small object that could not be made subtractively. In addition we had to 3D scan an object and optionally print it.
This week we had to design a PCB (redraw the echo hello-world board and add at least a button and LED), make it through milling, stuff it and program it.
This week our goal was to make something big. Actually we had to design, mill and assembly something big, made out of Oriented Strand Board (OSB) material.
This week we had to program the Hello-echo board that we made two weeks ago (Neil’s echo board with an LED and a switch) to do something, with as many different programming languages and programming environments as possible.
This week we had to design a 3D mold, mill it on a block of machinable wax (rough and finish cut), and use it to cast parts using a variety of materials.
This week each group had to design, manufacture, actuate and automate a machine using Jake's hardware kit and softeware (squidworks). The CBA group decided to make an apple peeler! My group’s collective documentation can be found here. This page describes my individual contributions.
This week we had to select among various digital fabrication processes (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, in order to design and produce something.