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MoWe Syllabus

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6-Sep
Monday

Labor Day


8-Sep
Wednesday

Barney, Don, North: Introduction to the class

* Delineation of the 3 areas of concentration / departure

* Expectations: Assignments and show

* Possible strategies and models

Barney: Computers and the Hybrid Lab

Don: Power & Control and Electro Safety

North: Fabricating Electromechanical devices

 


13-Sep
Monday

Videos


15-Sep
Wednesday

Designing For Motion


20-Sep
Monday

E+M

Electricity and Magnetism

  cats and lightning

  lodestones and the north pole


22-Sep
Wednesday

MaxRrandom


27-Sep
Monday

Random Motion Assignments Due

 

Identify and bring in for a class presentation something that moves unpredictably - it can be mechanical, a household object, fabricated or found. Don't forget heat rises, light is very fast and gravity tends to make things fall. One caveat however, this project should be a combination, collage or construction of multiple components. For instance, a toy or a balloon in and of itself would not suffice, but an interaction between the two would.

 

“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin”

   -John von Neumann

 

hotbits

 

Chaitin

 

Definition of Randomness R1: A random finite binary string is one that cannot be compressed into a program smaller than itself,

   that is, that is not the unique output of a program without any input, a program whose size in bits is smaller than the size in bits of its output.

Definition of Randomness R2: A random n-bit string is one that has maximum or near maximum complexity.

   In other words, an n-bit string is random if its complexity is approximately equal to the maximum complexity of any n-bit string.

 


29-Sep
Wednesday

Power Transmission


4-Oct
Monday

Artist Presentations


6-Oct
Wednesday

Sensors+Measurement


11-Oct
Monday

MAX/MakeBoard(input)


13-Oct
Wednesday

H-Bridge


18-Oct
Monday

Max/Makeboard(output)


20-Oct
Wednesday

Individual Meetings

 

Please follow Final Project Proposal Guidelines.

     1. 7:20 Kathryn

     2. 7:35 Lee

     3. 7:50 James

     4. 8:05 Katy

     5. 8:20 Josh C

     - 8:35 break

     6. 9:00 Tierney

     7. 9:15 Josh K

     8. 9:30 

     9. 9:45 

 


25-Oct
Monday

Individual Meetings

 

Please follow Final Project Proposal Guidelines.

     1. 7:20 Allison

     2. 7:35 Jack

     3. 7:50 Ashley

     4. 8:05 Monika

     5. 8:20 Adam

     - 8:35 break

     6. 9:00 Kelly

     7. 9:15  Jenna

     8. 9:30 

     9. 9:45 

 


27-Oct
Wednesday

MSP


1-Nov
Monday

Project Presentations

 

Final Project Proposal Guidelines.



3-Nov
Wednesday

Sourcing Materials

http://www.ladyada.net/wiki/

http://www.halted.com/

http://www.sparkfun.com/

http://www.mcmaster.com/

http://www.mouser.com/

http://www.jameco.com

http://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/

http://www.metalsupermarkets.com

http://www.servocity.com/

http://www.solarbotics.com/

 

     Electrical


8-Nov
Monday

Metal Fabrication


10-Nov
Wednesday

Shop Introduction


15-Nov
Monday

Lab


17-Nov
Wednesday

Lab


22-Nov
Monday

Lab


24-Nov
Wednesday

Lab


29-Nov
Monday

Progress Report


1-Dec
Wednesday

Lab


6-Dec
Monday

Lab


8-Dec
Wednesday

Critique


13-Dec
Monday

Lab


15-Dec
Wednesday

Install


17-Dec
Friday

SHOW


 

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