Intermediate Rapid Prototyping Schedule
Spring 2023, Section A4
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Date Lecture Office Hours Project/Assignment Hand-in
Week 1 Mon 3/13 Course overview and intro to mechanisms.
Scissors script.		 Install SolidWorks on your laptop or try out Virtual Andrew.
Laser cutter:
(A) Laser cutter policies.
(B) Laser cutter safety module.
(C) Cody Soska trains you on the laser cutter: watch both parts 1 and 2. 		Sign up for fire extinguisher training if you need it.
Wed 3/15 Gears and linkages.
Gears and LittleMan Automaton script
LittleManParts.zip		 - Watch this Mechanism video
- Assignment 1: Mechanism
Fri 3/18 Vicky 12:30-1:30
Week 2 Mon 3/20 Simulation.
Parts file: Levers.zip
Video: Computational design of mechanical characters.
Tue 3/21 Saranya 10:00-11:00 Johnny 12:30-1:30
Wed 3/22 Articulated motion.
Resources: Compound.zip, Articulation.zip Videos: Automata videos
 Assignment 2: Automaton Mechanism due
Fri 3/25 Vicky 12:30-1:30
Week 3 Mon 3/27 Intermittent motion and complex linkages.
Parts files: DrivingShaft.SLDPRT and DrivenShaft.SLDPRT.
MotionStudy files for motion study.
Cozmo's lift.
Tue 3/28 Saranya 10:00-11:00 Johnny 12:30-1:30
Wed 3/29 Surfaces in SolidWorks.
Image files: frontview_deoroller.jpg, sideview_deoroller.jpg
Fri 3/31 Vicky 12:30-1:30 Last day for mechanism pictures
Sun 4/2 Automaton checkpoint files due
Week 4 Mon 4/3 Procedurally-generated objects. Intro to Grasshopper. Automaton checkpoint in class
Tue 4/4 Saranya 10:00-11:00 Johnny 12:30-1:30
Wed 4/5 Grasshopper part 2: Grasshopper and Rhino.
Fri 4/8 Vicky 12:30-1:30
Week 5 Mon 4/10 Grashopper part 3: lists and trees.
Optional video: Grasshopper Trees lecture by Nick Senske 		Read this data tree tutorial.

Assignment 3: Voronoi Vase

Automaton final version
Tue 4/11 Saranya 10:00-11:00 Johnny 12:30-1:30
Wed 4/12 Weaverbird and Coccoon
Files: StanfordBunny.stl, airplane.stl
Demo: rabbit mesh sculpture.
Fri 4/15 Vicky 12:30-1:30
Week 6 Mon 4/17 Kangaroo 2 Physics
bouncy.3dm, bouncy.gh, File: kanga-pipe.3dm and instructions for making it. 		Final projects Voronoi vase due
Tue 4/18 Saranya 10:00-11:00 Johnny 12:30-1:30
Wed 4/19 More Kangaroo 2.
Files: organic-shrink.gh, organic-pipes.3dm
Make your own organic shape. 		Organic shape handin
Fri 4/21 Vicky 12:30-1:30
Week 7 Mon 4/24 Advanced Grasshopper topics
Books: Khabazi: Generative Algorithms books and porous shell files
Tue 4/25 Saranya 10:00-11:00 Johnny 12:30-1:30
Wed 4/26 Galapagos evolutionary solver.
Source files.
Fri 4/28 Vicky 12:30-1:30
Week 8 Mon 5/1 No more classes. Work on final projects.
Tue 5/2 Saranya 10:00-11:00 Johnny 12:30-1:30
Wed 5/3 No more classes. Work on final projects.
Fri 5/5 Vicky 12:30-1:30 Final projects due.
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