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Final Project
For my final project, I designed a foldable lamp that can change color depending on the degree to which it is compressed. See more about the …
Wildcard Week
For my assignment this week, I decided to cut something using the Zund machine. Design I designed a crease pattern that I want to eventually …
Machine Building
This week, the CBA section worked together to create a machine that can draw arbitrary designs in sand. Sand We quickly discovered that the magnet …
Interface Programming
This week’s assignment was to write an application that interfaces a user with an input or output device. Program Using my capacitive touch …
Networking and Communications
This week’s assignment was to design and build a wireless node. Design I decided to create a board using the wireless ESP32 chip. I redesigned …
Output Devices
This week’s assignment was to add an output device to a microcontroller board. Design I decided to use the capacitive touch sensor I designed …
Input Devices
This week’s assignment was to make a sensor and measure something. Design I designed a capacitive touch sensor. Using Eagle, I redesigned the …
Molding and Casting
This week’s assignment was to make a mold and cast them using different materials. Design I designed a two-octave piano keyboard in Onshape. …
Embedded Programming
This week’s assignment was to program our board from Week 4. Modifications First, I slightly modified my board from Week 4. The USB head was too …
Computer-Controlled Machining
This week’s assignment was to “make something big” (on the order of meters). Having played in the MIT Symphony Orchestra for two …
Electronics Design
For this week’s assignment, I designed a PCB using the “hello.D11C.blink” design as reference in EAGLE (I added a button to the …
3D Printing and Scanning
The week’s assignment was to design and print an object that cannot be made subtractively. Design I decided to design an elephant; to start, I …
Electronics Production
The week’s assignment was to design a printed circuit board (PCB) using in-house tools. Design The circuit design files were already provided to …
Computer-controlled Cutting -- Laser
The next assignment this week was to create a parametric construction kit. I wanted to make an Archimedean solid, so I designed a …
Computer-controlled Cutting -- Vinyl
The first assignment this week was simply to “cut something on the vinyl cutter.” I decided to design a Chinese seal, a 4x4 array divided …
Computer Aided Design
For this week, I wanted to familiarize myself with Autodesk Fusion 360. Thus, I redesigned a symmetric net I had used in a previous project. For my …