?? Intermediate Rapid Prototyping: Schedule
Intermediate Rapid Prototyping Schedule
Spring 2024, Section A4
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Date Lecture Office Hours Project/Assignment Hand-in
Week 1 Mon 3/11 Course overview and intro to mechanisms.
Scissors script.		 Install SolidWorks on your laptop or try out Virtual Andrew.
Laser cutter:
(A) Laser cutter policies.
(B) Laser cutter safety module.
(C) Cody Soska trains you on the laser cutter: watch both parts 1 and 2. 		Sign up for fire extinguisher training if you need it.
Wed 3/13 Gears and linkages.
Gears and LittleMan Automaton script
LittleManParts.zip		 - Watch this Mechanism video
- Assignment 1: Mechanism
Week 2 Mon 3/18 Simulation.
Parts file: Levers.zip
Video: Computational design of mechanical characters.
Tue 3/19 Yon 5-6
Wed 3/20 Articulated motion.
Resources: Compound.zip, Articulation.zip Videos: Automata videos
 Assignment 2: Automaton Mechanism due
Week 3 Mon 3/25 Intermittent motion and complex linkages.
Parts files: DrivingShaft.SLDPRT and DrivenShaft.SLDPRT.
Cozmo Lift files for motion study.
Modeling Cozmo's lift.
Tue 3/26 Yon 5-6
Wed 3/27 Surfaces in SolidWorks.
Image files: frontview_deoroller.jpg, sideview_deoroller.jpg
Sun 3/31 Automaton checkpoint files due
Week 4 Mon 4/1 Procedurally-generated objects. Intro to Grasshopper. Automaton checkpoint in class
Tue 4/2 Yon 5-6
Wed 4/3 Grasshopper part 2: Grasshopper and Rhino.
Week 5 Mon 4/8 Grashopper part 3: lists and trees.
Optional video: Grasshopper Trees lecture by Nick Senske 		Read this data tree tutorial.

Assignment 3: Studded Surface

Automaton final version
Tue 4/9 Yon 5-6
Wed 4/10 Weaverbird and Coccoon
Files: StanfordBunny.stl, airplane.stl
Demo: rabbit mesh sculpture. 		Final projects
Week 6 Mon 4/15 Kangaroo 2 Physics
bouncy.3dm, bouncy.gh, File: kanga-pipe.3dm and instructions for making it. 		Studded surface due
Tue 4/16 Yon 5-6
Wed 4/17 More Kangaroo 2.
Files: organic-pipes.3dm, organic-shrink.gh
Make your own organic shape. 		Organic shape handin
Week 7 Mon 4/22 Advanced Grasshopper topics
Books: Khabazi: Generative Algorithms books and porous shell files
Tue 4/23 Yon 5-6
Wed 4/24 Galapagos evolutionary solver.
Source files.
Week 8 Mon 4/29 No more classes. Work on final projects.
Tue 4/30 Yon 5-6
Wed 5/1 No more classes. Work on final projects. Final projects due
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