This course provides a hands-on introduction to the resources for designing and fabricating smart systems, including CAD/CAM/CAE; NC machining, 3-D printing, injection molding, laser cutting; PCB layout and fabrication; sensors and actuators; analog instrumentation; embedded digital processing; wired and wireless communications. This course also puts emphasis on learning how to use the tools as well as understand how they work.
The course provides a hands-on introduction to the resources for designing and fabricating smart systems, including CAD/CAM/CAE; NC machining, 3-D printing, injection molding, laser cutting; PCB layout and fabrication; sensors and actuators; analog instrumentation; embedded digital processing; wired and wireless communications. Emphasis is placed on learning how to use the tools as well as understanding how they work.
Design Tools
Design and model a solution to a problem from ThinkCycle.
Help:
Laser, Waterjet, NC Knife Cutting
Cut and fabricate something using as many types of materials as possible:
Microcontroller Programming
Machining
Circuit Design
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Joe Paradiso's Electronics Primer Notes (Updated by Michael Sung)
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Useful Electronic Parts and Circuits Information (Scanned by Michael Sung)
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Simple Pseudo-Random Sound Generator Example
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A Funny Video of Circuit De-bugging
Problem 1: How to drive stepmotors?
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Driving Stepmotors (by Axel Kilian)
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Color Coding of Resistors (by Saoirse Higgins)
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Web Sites Used for Help with Circuit Design (by David Merril, Kyle Steinfeld):
http://www.findchips.com/
http://www.digikey.com/ (Voted "The Best Source")
http://www.TI.com
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Midi Stuff:
http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/category/code/picbasic-pro/161
http://www.midi.org/about-midi/aboutmidi3.shtml
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall02/cs436/
Useful Book: Practical Electronics for Inventors (Good Theory Explanations, Bad Schematics)
3D Printing and NC Machining
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Modela Instructions (by C. Scott Ananian)
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3D Printer Instructions (by C. Scott Ananian)
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John's FabLab Tutorials (by Difrancesco)
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Site for Making Gears with Printers of Cutters (by Axel Killian)
PCB Design
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Making a New Schematic/PCB Part in Protel '99 (By David Merrill)
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Making a PCB on the Modela (Instructions and Software, by CSA)
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Carving a Protel Circuit Board on the Roland Mill (Additional Suggestions from Hayes Raffle)
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Making a PCB Fixture Bed (Instructions and CAD Files, by CSA)
Forming and Joining
Sensors, Actuators and Displays
3D Input
Wired and Wireless Communications
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Networking Standards Definitions (Axel Kilian with Krikorian)
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Networking Hardware Schematics, Assembly Code and ORCAD Files
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Presentation by Raffi Krikorian
Projects Presentation
Calendar
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TOPICS
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INSTRUCTORS
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Design Tools
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Gershenfeld
Sawhney
Direkova
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Laser, Waterjet, NC Knife Cutting
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Gershenfeld DiFrancesco Mohan
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3
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Microcontroller Programming
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Mikhak Lyon Merrill
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Machining
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Gershenfeld
DiFrancesco Miller
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Circuit Design
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Paradiso Ma Benbasat Sung
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3D Printing
NC Machining
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Gershenfeld
DiFrancesco Steinfeld
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PCB Design
and Fabrication
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Mikhak Lyon Ananian
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Forming and Joining
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Csikszentmihalyi
McKinley Raffle
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Sensors, Actuators,
and Displays
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Paradiso Ma Vora
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10
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3D Input
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Gershenfeld
DiFrancesco Parkes
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Wired and Wireless
Communications
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Gershenfeld
Krikorian Killian
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Project
Presentations
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