Syllabus: Rapid Prototyping Technologies

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DateLectureOffice Hours Project/AssignmentHand-in
Week 1    Mon 10/26 Course overview.
Tour of IDeATe@Hunt.		 Software setup User info
User agreement
Wed 10/28 Introduction to SolidWorks, part 1. #1: Make a Spirograph
 
Week 2 Mon 11/2 Introduction to SolidWorks, part 2.
Laser cutter intro.
Sample parts: StandA, StandB.		 Adam
5:30 - 6:30
Wed 11/4 Lecture: DXF file format.
SolidWorks part 3.		 Meg
5:30 - 6:30		 #2. Tree Generator Spirograph due
 
Week 3 Mon 11/9 Reproducing the Pascaline: the first
mechanical adding machine.
Video: How the Pascaline Works.		 Adam
5:30 - 6:30		 #3. Pascaline replica Pacaline partners due
Wed 11/11 Lecture: Working in 3D. SolidWorks part 4:
revolves, lofts, shell, and flex. See these Flex Examples from SolidWorks online help.		 Meg
5:30 - 6:30		 Trees due
 
Week 4 Mon 11/16 Intro to the Cube.
In-class project: make a molecule.		 Adam
5:30 - 6:30		 #4. Molecule design
Wed 11/18 Lecture: Survey of additive
manufacturing technologies. Videos.
Form 1 stereolithography printer.
Cube demo. 		Meg
5:30 - 6:30		 Pascaline files due
 
Week 5 Mon 11/23 Additive manufacturing technologies (continued).
STL file format. Slicing algorithms.
STL demo files. 		Adam
5:30 - 6:30		 #5. Duck rendering. Molecules due; Pascaline checkpoint
Wed 11/25 Thanksgiving holiday. No class.
 
Week 6 Mon 11/30 Final project overview and idea generation. Adam
5:30 - 6:30		 #6. Final project Pascaline checkpoint; 3 project ideas due.
Tue 12/1 Pascalines due
Wed 12/2 Equations in SolidWorks Meg
5:30 - 6:30		 Duck rendering due
 
Week 7 Mon 12/7 Lecture: Design tricks for
mechatronics and robotics.
Laser-Cut Enclosure Design:
advice from Adafruit Industries.		 Adam
5:30 - 6:30
Wed 12/9 Lecture: Printing exotic stuff:
food, tissues/organs,
prosthetics, houses.
Multi-extruder printing. Videos
Meg
5:30 - 6:30
 
Week 8 Mon 12/14 No class. Adam
5:30 - 6:30
Wed 12/16 No class. Meg
5:30 - 6:30
Fri 12/18 Final projects due

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