Bootcamp Oct 2013

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Day 1 Monday

Morning

Afternoon

  • Homework: Decide upon and describe final project, integrating different fabrication methods and electronics


Day 2 Tuesday 9AM



Morning 




*2D Subtractive fabrication (Frosti) 
**2D - 3D pressfit with Sketchup Dan (90 minutes) 
**laser cutter

*3D Scanning and file preparation for fabrication 
**(Frosti Scanning, demonstrative (30 minutes) 
**Dan 3d File Prep 30 minutes



 Afternoon 

*3D Additive fabrication, 3D printing (Dan) 
**vinyl cutter 
*Making t-shirts (Frosti)

Day 3 Wednesday 8AM

Morning

  • Fab Lab Management and Sustainability (Lass/Betty Barret?)
    • How to set up a lab
  • Additive fabrication (continued) (Dan)
  • Introduction to ShopBot and making large things (Frosti)

Afternoon


Day 4 Thursday 8 AM

Electronics all day

  • start with 1.5 hours of Picocricket/Scratch/Pico Board Frosti)
  • Circuit Design(Mercedes)
  • File preparation & fabrication(Mercedes)
  • Fabrication: components & soldering (Mercedes)

Day 5 Friday 8AM

Morning

  • Programming circuits (Mercedes with help from entire gang)

Afternoon

  • Final Project Fabrication
  • Systems Integration

Day 6 Saturday

All morning

  • Final Project Fabrication & Systems Integration
  • Final Project Presentations-- to Barcelona probably around noon, to Museum (expo environment in central location around 2ish?)
  • Celebratory Dinner



Integrate the final projects
share the final projects with the users of the museum.


MSI

Concerns:
3 d printing
Rhino or Blender?
Google Sketchup

Question

Day 1 Monday

Morning

  • Introduction to Fab Labs -> Neil or Sherry Lassiter
  • Review the week: Describe final projects (inputs and outputs: motors, lights sound, temperature, etc.)(electronics with)
  • Guided tour of the fab lab
  • Documentation and archiving online

Afternoon Digital design (2D and 3D software tools)

Homework: Decide upon and describe final project, integrating different fabrication methods and electronics 

2D design and fabrication

2D DESIGN TOOLS (1 hour)

Design software for 2D:

  • - Inkscape
  • - Openoffice - Libre Office
  • - Corel Draw
  • - illustrator

2D FABRICATION TOOLS (3 hours)

CNC Cutting:

Laser:
  • Safety, use, maintenance , projects (2D projects)
  • - Materials (Wood, Acrylic, Textiles, Organic Source
  • - Nesting and saving material
  • - Press-fit
  • - From 2D to 3D and viceversa workflow (DEMO on waffle structures)
  • - Raster images and bitmaps
ShopBot

(Introduction in 2D cutting use): Safety, use, maintenance, projects (2D projects).

  • - Materials (Wood, Aluminum, Composites, Acrylic)
  • - Tool types (Diameter, Length, Blades, Shape)
  • - Nesting and Hold down
Vinyl Cutter:
  • Safety, use, maintenance, projects (Tshirt, flex circuit or antenna, signs)
Documentation

How to use the wiki

Test page

Also you can try the Mercurial


Assignment:

  • To develop a design using a 2D Design software (Could be out of proposed software), fabricate it with the Laser Cutter and document it on Boot Camp Site.

Day 2 Tuesday

A day of 3D design, molding and casting, (xtra 3D printing technology for those who have that capability)

3D DESIGN TOOLS (3 hours)

3D FABRICATION TOOLS (3 hours)

Modela:
  • Safety, use, maintenance, projects (molding and casting, circuits, 2D etching)
ShopBot
  • Safety, use, maintenance, projects (furniture, mini-sail boat, sign)
    • - Materials (Foam, Wax, Wood)
    • - Tool types (Diameter, Length, Blades, Shape)
    • - Molding and Casting materials in a large scale
    • - Large scale surfacing

Shop Bot Fabrication process (2 hours)

  • - Toolpath Generation
  • - Partworks 2.5D and 3D
  • - RhinoCam
  • - Material preparation and holdown
3D printing
  • - Technoligies: Layering, SLS, FDM
  • - Commercial: ZCorp, Dimension, HP, Objet, Matrix, EOS
  • - Open Source projects: RepRap, Maker Bot, Fab at Home

Evening:

  • Modela and ShopBot projects continued

Assignment:

  • Design and fabricate a mold in a small scale


Day 3 Wednesday

Electronics and overall lab considerations (management, business, networking, IT, etc.) Group: Shawn Wallace electronics introduction: Time: 09:00 Boston time

Morning Europe time: Lab management, Tomas and Frosti, lab management and administration

Morning > Lab Management and administration (2 hours)

  • - Inventory
  • - Lab IT and Networking: Epilog, print drivers, LAN
  • - Machine maintenance
  • - Safety
  • - Machine reservation system
  • - Web management tools
  • - Business models
  • - Material management (recycling, classifying)

Afternoon > ELECTRONICS

  • - Design and Production Hello this is my desktop
  • - Programming

Design software:

  • - cad.py (pretty tough for a couple of hours!!!!)
  • - Eagle

How to make a Hello World circuit (2 hours)

  • - CAD.py process (Feeds, Speeds, Resolution)
  • - Setting up the Modela (Calibration, Copper board setup)
  • - Tools (Milling and cutting)
  • - Soldering

Programming:

  • How to program a Hello World circuit (2 hours)
  • - Assembler language
  • - C Programming
  • - Microcontroller language: .Hex files.
  • - Programming Cable Making (FABISP?)
  • - Avrdude

Evening:

  • electronics projects continued


Assignment

  • Modify, fabricate and program your own hello board:
  • - RGB LED Board
  • - Speaker Board
  • - Step Response Board
  • - Microphone Board

Day 4 Thursday

Electronics continues and integrated final project work (something like a music box)

Finishing Electronics design, production and programming

  • - Programming cables
  • - Customized hello board


Day 5 Friday

Group session at 11.00 Boston time: Presentation and documentation

Final project integration

  • - A final project to be defined with the integration of different fabrication methods and electronics

Online Final Project Presentation

  • 5 min for participant to explain and show their projects (2-3 hours)


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