Principles and Practices

✅ plan and sketch a potential final project

Plan

• Optical Layout: Laser source, sample holder, lenses, mirrors, beam splitter (if needed), diffraction grating, focusing optics onto a detector (e.g., CCD).
• Mechanical Design: 3D-printed or CNC-milled enclosure and mounts for stable optical alignment.
• Electronics: Power supply for laser, interface for detector (often a CCD or CMOS sensor).
• Software: Firmware and data acquisition software, possibly using open-source platforms (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.).
• Calibration & Testing: Aligning optics, verifying laser line, calibrating wavelength and intensity.

Computer-Aided Design

✅ model (raster, vector, 2D, 3D, render, animate, simulate, ...) a possible final project.

✅ and post a description with your design files on your class page

An open Raman spectrometer is a research instrument designed to measure the unique vibrational signatures of molecules using the Raman scattering effect, all while employing open-source principles in its hardware and software design. By adhering to open-source standards, these systems allow researchers, educators, and hobbyists to freely access, modify, and improve both the instrument’s mechanical layout and the data-acquisition/control software.

Week 1 Parametric CAD

For week 1 I tried to generate the 2D imagies for the lamp shade that I want to make a lot of circles to practice prarmetric cad and Fusion 360 API scripting

I tried to use parametric design and Fusion API function to make all the circle