15-394 Intermediate Rapid Prototyping

Fall 2025

Location: Hunt Library 106B

Date/Time: Mon/Wed 7:00 pm to 8:20 pm, October 20 to December 12, 2024.

People

	Professor: Dave Touretzky, dst@cs.cmu.edu Office hours: by appointment
	TA: Avery Lavine, averyl@andrew.cmu.edu Office hours: Tuesdays 5:00 to 6:00 pm in Hunt basement

	IDeATe Facilities Staff, Hunt A29: x8-6050

Syllabus Class schedule Canvas page IDeATe Array Portal

Student Mechanism Galleries: 1, 2 Student Automaton Galleries: 1, 2 Final Project Galleries: 1, 2, 3

Resources:
SolidWorks:

SolidWorks material from 15-294 Rapid Prototyping Technologies.
SolidWorks 2024 Essential Training at LinkedIn Learning; log in here.

Mechanism design:

SolidWorks parts files
Mechanism design resources
Grasshopper:

The Grasshopper Primer, and Josh Bard's Grasshopper Resources page.
Generative Algorithms (using Grashopper), 3rd edition, by Zubin Khabazi.
Grasshopper Essential Training at Lynda.com; log in here.
Rhino Grasshopper Learning Resources.