Julia Makes Things
Let's see what happens when a programmer makes real things.
Week 14:
Composites
Assignment: Design and fabricate a 3D mold and produce a fiber composite part in it, with resin infusion and compaction.
Week 13:
Networking and Communications
Assignment: Design and build a wired and/or wireless network connecting at least two processors.
Week 12:
Interface and Application Programming
Assignment: Write an application that interfaces with an input and/or output device that you made, comparing as many tool options as possible.
Week 11:
Input Devices
Assignment: Measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you have designed and read it
Week 9:
Output Devices
Assignment: Add an output device to a microcontroller board you’ve designed and program it to do something.
Week 8:
Molding and Casting
Assignment: Design a 3D mold around the stock and tooling that you’ll be using, machine it, and use it to cast parts
Week 7:
Embedded Programming
Assignment: Read a microcontroller data sheet and program your board to do something.
Week 6:
Make Something Big
Assignment: Make something big (out of wood, using computer-controlled machining).
Week 5:
Electronics Design
Assignment: Redraw the echo hello-world board, add a button and LED, make it, and test it.
Week 4:
3D Printing and Scanning
Assignment: Design and print an object that could not be made subtractively. 3D scan an object (and optionally print it).
Week 2:
Website
Assignment: Build a personal website in the class archive describing you and your final project.
Week 2:
Lasers and Tiny Knives
Assignment: Create a laser cut parametric press-fit construction kit, and use the vinyl cutter to make something.
