Machine Week 2023
everything's connected but nothing's working !Toiler Paper Plotter: Arch Section Repo
Damatictron: CBA Section Repo / CBA Section Website
Gershenforcer: EECS Section Repo / EECS Website
Photo Bleach: Harvard Section Repo / Harvard Website
1. Your (Group) Task
Each section will design and build a "machine" - this means anything that includes mechanism, actuation, automation and application, that just means:
Mechanism: mechanical degrees-of-freedom (DOF)
Stuff shuld move around.
Actuation: computer-controllable motion of the above DOFs
The motion should be computer controlled.
Automation / Application software-coordinated computer-control of the above, and i.e. sequences therein
The motion should result in some desired outcome... maybe make something, draw something, change something, assemble something, sort something, cast a spell, etc.
2. Tools, Tools, Tools !
Ilan (inventor of CoreXY) would urge us to think more carefully about "tools" - what does it mean to build a computer-controlled system that acts like a tool, interacting with the world but being mediated by some designer's intent... it's a foamcore world.
Shaper Origin [YouTube]
Turn-By-Wire [UIST]
