Deliverables And HomeWork
Participating students are required to submit deliverables in lieu of quizzes and exams. The deliverables are designed with project design milestones in mind. The deliverables account for 80% of the final grade. The homework assignments are due by end of the second class period of each week until week 9. After week 9 there will be no more homework and the focus is on finishing the student projects. The homework assignments are designed to expand the skill sets of the participating students. The homework assignments account for 20% of the final grade.
Homework 1
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Week 1
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All students buy their Course Kits at the IEEE office. See here for instructions. (4% of the grade). This assignment is due by Friday COB of the first week of classes. Make sure that they check you off the class roll at the IEEE office when you pick up your kits.
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Week 2
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Everybody makes a 2 min video about how to hook up a button to the Arduino and use it to blink an LED (3.2% of grade).
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Week 2
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Learn basic geometric modeling: Use Autodesk Maya and/or Inventor and create a model of a static robot using basic geometric polygon meshes (2% of the grade).
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Week 3
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All students will each submit a short video about a 3D printed part that was developed with Maya (3.2% of grade).
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Week 3
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Build an Arduino setup where you control 8 LEDs with the potentiometer (2% of the grade)
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Week 4
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Share and discuss in artistic terms the design and outcome of your work thus far (2% of the grade)
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Week 5
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Use the proximity sensor to determine the distance to an object and then show the measured distance on the LCD display (2% of the grade)
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Week 5
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All teams will submit one 3 min video each discussing their project. At this point the mechanical components of the projects are designed and animated in Maya, and a concept of the control system has been developed.
Note: The final design can still change, but the concept of the project should be well-developed at this point (9.6% of grade). |
Week 6
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Organic Modeling: Use Maya together with Mudbox to Create an Insect (2% of the grade)
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Week 6
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All teams submit a 3 min video about an initial version of their control system for their project (6.4% of grade) .
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Week 7
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Learn to use the IR remote to control a servo motor (2% of grade)
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Week 7
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All teams will submit a short video about at least one organically sculpted 3D printed object that is part of their projects. The part must be created with a digital sculpting application such as Mudbox or ZBrush. The video also must also explain the material selection and finishing process used for the part (6.4% of grade).
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Week 8
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Demonstrate proper fitting and assembly of 3D printed parts (2% of grade)
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Week 9
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Design and build an assembly that has features actuated by a motor and/or servo (2% of grade)
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Week 10
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Show a bouncing dot on the 8x8 LED display that is reflected by the boundaries of the display (2% of grade)
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Week 11
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All teams submit a 3 min video about their control system. At this point the control system must exist as a breadboard setup that mostly works (9.6% of grade).
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Week 13
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All teams submit a 3 min video about the Arduino sketch. The video describes how the sketch controls the system and what functions are controlled in what way (9.6% of grade).
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Week 15
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All teams present their projects during the final class period (16% of grade)
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Week 16 (Thursday of finals week)
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All teams submit a 3 min video featuring their project and discussing it (8% of grade).
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Week 16
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All teams author an instructable and uploads it to instructables.com (8% of grade)
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