Intermediate Rapid Prototyping Schedule
Fall 2018, Section A2
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Date Lecture Office Hours Project/Assignment Hand-in
Week 1 Tue 10/23 Course overview and intro to mechanisms.
Scissors script.
Take fire extinguisher training part 1 and sign up for part 2
Thu 10/25 Gears and linkages. Gears and LittleMan Automaton script.
Week 2 Tue 10/30 Simulation.
Video: Computational design of mechanical characters.
Ted 8-9pm Assignment 1: Mechanism
Thu 11/1 Articulated motion.
Resources: LittleMan.zip, LittleManVee.zip LittleManArt.zip
Fan 5:30-6:30; Amy 8-9pm
Week 3 Tue 11/6 Intermittent motion and complex linkages.
DrivingShaft.SLDPRT and DrivenShaft.SLDPRT.
Videos: Automata videos
Mechanism files for motion study. Cozmo's lift.
Ted 8-9pm Assignment 2: Automaton Mechanism due
Thu 11/8 Surfaces in SolidWorks. How to Model a Deodorant Roller in SolidWorks, frontview_deoroller.jpg, sideview_deoroller.jpg Fan 5:30-6:30
Week 4 Tue 11/13 Procedurally-generated objects. Intro to Grasshopper. Ted 8-9pm
Thu 11/15 Grasshopper part 2: Grasshopper and Rhino. Fan 5:30-6:30 Automaton due
Week 5 Tue 11/20 Grashopper part 3: lists and trees.
Ted 8-9pm Assignment 3: Parametric Surface
Google Drive folder to queue STL files,
Thu 11/22 Thanksgiving holiday. No class.
Week 6 Tue 11/27 Grasshopper part 4.
Demo files: empty-nodes.gh and data-matching.gh
Demo notes. Voronoi files; rabbit mesh sculpture.

8:00-9:00
Final projects
Thu 11/29 Surfaces and 3D sketches in SolidWorks.
Modeling exercise: Cozmo-back.SLDPRT.
Fan 5:30-6:30
Week 7 Tue 12/4 Khabazi: Generative Algorithms, Grasshopper good practice, porous files Ted 8-9pm Assignment 3 due
Thu 12/6 Final project progress reports. Fan 5:30-6:30
Week 8 Tue 12/11 No more classes. Work on final projects. TBD
Thu 12/13 No more classes. Work on final projects. TBD
Fri 12/14 No more classes. Work on final projects. TBD Final projects due.
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