Week
2:
Wednesday,
4/14/21
TED Talk by an arduino creator
Today:
- Grades:
- Grades are in PowerSchool, in your Block 1 Designing
Solutions class. I'm leaving block 2 blank.
- Feel free to resubmit your chess piece if you want more credit.
If you do, email me to let me know, because I won't get a
notification.
- People with zeroes can still submit the assignments for up
to 90% credit. That percentage may drop in the future.
If you have a good reason for not being able to turn in an
assignment, let me know.
- Attach your paper projectile log in the engineering log
assignment. But don't "turn it in" yet. I want to be
able to check to see if you're keeping up and not just going from
memory or making stuff up at the end. You can do that now.
- Load the STL files in Cura and send to the 3-D printer.
- Capstone:
- Coming up -- Look at the calendar
- Gold group finishes the projectiles and has the
competition on Friday. 3-D parts are handed out (unless
there's a printer problem)
- Design for laser cutting
- Capstone planning and sharing at next Meet.
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Week
1:
Wednesday,
4/7/21
Design Contest #1: Paper Projectiles
Your first design challenge is to design a
process for creating a paper projectile that will travel the greatest
horizontal distance when it is shot from a pneumatic launcher with 20psi
of compressed air. You
can use up to one sheet of school copy paper, up to 10cm of 3/4" clear
tape, and any sabot that you choose. The sabot cannot travel over
20m from the launcher. What is a sabot?
Today: Class Information (I will be figuring this
out as I go, so I have not prepared the typical "Course Expectations"
document.)
- Assignments to work on today and for the rest of the week.
Take a look at what's in Google Classroom and the class calendar.
- Class goals
- Improve engineering/creative problem solving skills (an
emphasis on iterative design).
- Build technical skills (CAD, 3-D Printing, Laser Cutting,
Microcontrollers...)
- Produce "capstone project" in engineering.
- Philosophy -- acquiring problem-solving skills takes motivation
and experience
- Design competitions will provide structure and motivation
for practice and skill acquisition-- 6 contests
and the DS Cup
- Grades are not based on
contest success (but contest success may include extra points).
- Graded Assignments (I hope to make the weighting of assignments
clearer in the future):
- Engineering Logs
- Contest participation
- Skill-building assignments
- Possibly... skill tests
- Grading Criteria:
- Completion of assignments and meeting basic requirements
- Timeliness (possible deductions for late logs, contest
participation, or capstone project)
- Extra points for contest success
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Class Calendar
- Notice that we will be working on several things at once.
There is not enough time to proceed sequentially.
- In past years, students acquired skills over the course of
the first 2-3 quarters and then applied those skills to the
capstone project at the end of the year. This year, there
is no Arduino work planned until around the time your capstone
projects are due.
- Other details:
- You should bring earbuds/headphones to school if you want to
work on CAD tutorials during class time.
- You will have a bin for storing your materials. The
bins will generally be stored in the "Fab Lab" (laser cutter
room).
- We will have Google Meets on Wednesdays, but on other days,
classes will be asynchronous.
- Wednesday attendance is required (one 9:00 Meet).
- Behavioral Expectations
- Who needs a loaner computer and/or a mouse with a wheel?
- Reminder: Assignments to work on today and for the rest of
the week.
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