Intermediate Rapid Prototyping Schedule
Spring 2021, Section A4
Class Homepage
Zoom link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/696040046
Date Lecture Office Hours Project/Assignment Hand-in Video
Week 1 Mon 3/22 Course overview and intro to mechanisms.
Scissors script.
- Install SolidWorks on your laptop.
- Intro Quiz
Video
Wed 3/24 Gears and linkages.
Gears and LittleMan Automaton script
LittleManParts.zip
- Watch this Mechanism video
- Gears Quiz
- Assignment 1: Mechanism
Video
Thu 3/25 Anushka 5:00-6:00
Fri 3/26 Lee 9:00AM-10:00AM
Sat 3/27 Anushka 1:00-2:00
Week 2 Mon 3/29 Simulation.
Parts file: Levers.zip
Video: Computational design of mechanical characters.
- Simulation Quiz Video
Wed 3/31 Articulated motion.
Resources: Compound.zip, Articulation.zip
Daniela 11:15-12:15 - Fabrication Preferences
- Articulation Quiz
- Assignment 2: Automaton
Mechanism due Video
Thu 4/1 Anushka 5:00-6:00
Fri 4/2 Lee 9:00AM-10:00AM
Sat 4/3 Anushka 1:00-2:00
Week 3 Mon 4/5 Break day: no class.
Wed 4/7 Intermittent motion and complex linkages. Parts files: DrivingShaft.SLDPRT and DrivenShaft.SLDPRT.
Videos: Automata videos
Mechanism files for motion study. Cozmo's lift.
Daniela 11:15-12:15 Intermittent Motion Quiz Video
Thu 4/8 Anushka 5:00-6:00
Fri 4/9 Lee 9:00AM-10:00AM
Sat 4/10 Anushka 1:00-2:00
Week 4 Mon 4/12 Surfaces in SolidWorks.
Image files: frontview_deoroller.jpg, sideview_deoroller.jpg
Surface Modeling Quiz Automaton due Video
Wed 4/14 Procedurally-generated objects. Intro to Grasshopper. Daniela 11:15-12:15 Grasshopper Quiz 1 Video
Thu 4/15 Anushka 5:00-6:00
Fri 4/16 Lee 9:00AM-10:00AM
Sat 4/17 Anushka 1:00-2:00
Week 5 Mon 4/19 Grasshopper part 2: Grasshopper and Rhino. - Grasshopper 2 Quiz
- Assignment 3: Parametric Surface
Video
Wed 4/21 Grashopper part 3: lists and trees.
Optional video: Grasshopper Trees lecture by Nick Senske
Daniela 11:15-12:15 - Read this data tree tutorial.
- Grasshopper 3 Quiz
Video
Thu 4/22 Anushka 5:00-6:00
Fri 4/23 Lee 9:00AM-10:00AM
Sat 4/24 Anushka 1:00-2:00
Week 6 Mon 4/26 Weaverbird and Coccon
Files: StanfordBunny.stl, airplane.stl
Demo: rabbit mesh sculpture.
Weaverbird Quiz Video
Wed 4/28 Kangaroo 2 Physics
File: kanga-pipe.3dm and instructions for making it.
Daniela 11:15-12:15 - Kangaroo2 Quiz
- Final projects
Parametric surface due Video
Thu 4/29 Anushka 5:00-6:00
Fri 4/30 Lee 9:00AM-10:00AM
Sat 5/1 Anushka 1:00-2:00
Week 7 Mon 5/3 Final project proposals.
More Kangaroo 2.
File: organic-pipes.3dm
Kangaroo 2 Again Quiz Video
Wed 5/5 Advanced Grasshopper topics
Khabazi: Generative Algorithms books and porous shell files
Daniela 11:15-12:15 Advanced Grasshopper Quiz Video
Thu 5/6 Anushka 5:00-6:00
Fri 5/7 Lee 9:00AM-10:00AM
Sat 5/8 Anushka 1:00-2:00
Week 8 Mon 5/10 No more classes. Work on final projects.
Wed 5/12 No more classes. Work on final projects. Daniela 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Thu 5/13 Anushka 5:00-6:00
Fri 5/14 Lee 9:00AM-10:00AM Final project due.
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