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Spring2008Assignments

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Exam

 

Discussion

What have you thought about/noticed in the world that relates to the work you have done this semester?

 

Take the exam:

Extra credit question:

How will the price of fuel affect the systems you use on a daily basis in the future?

Think out 10 years and 40 years.

 

take the survey - link

Summer project:

Make signs for Conservation department in the town.

 

6-16-08

Exam Review

Electricity

Design Process

Mill

Vinyl

Sketchup

 

Summer project:

Make signs for Conservation department in the town.

Meeting Tuesday after the second exam in room 136.

 

Courses for next year:

Robotics

Build Repair

C++

Web Design

 

 

6-10-08

Multi color image

 

http://dhsfab.pbwiki.com/MultiColorImage

 

5-29-08

IndividualProjects

Have you handed in your proposal?

You are expected to work for the entire period.

More work, less sit.

 

5-20-08

IndividualProjects

With a few weeks left in the semester, each person will be developing a plan and written contract of what they will create and do with the remaining time.

 

What will you do?

What documentation will you create?

What tools will you use?

How will you share your project with the school and community?

How will we know that you have succeeded?

 

5-19-08

 

Prom wall

bring parts of prom wall back from front hall

put the wall up in storage.

 

sketchup

Your work on the warehouse should be tagged with 'duxtech' and other relevant words.

get your work out of the computer and into the physical world.

model making with foamboard

cutting on the mill

cutting on the shopbot

 

house building

How to get cleaner cuts

 

mill

vector cuts with letters

 

vinyl

celtics image from last night as a sticker/shirt

 

 

5-16-08

Sub Plan Mr. Connors May 16 2008

 

Principles of Technology Room 136

There are a number of projects going in the class right now. Here is a breakdown of what people should be working on:

 

Andria and Laura - Making a model of Duxbury Jewelers out of foam core board. They should need an exacto from the top drawer of the desk, which they should return at the end of class.

 

Donnie - Building circuits and experimenting with sound generated by his graphing calculator

 

Tim, Seth, Pete - Working on the mill, getting designs created on the computer to be cut in objects.

Tory, Chris, Will, David, John - Working to design for the vinyl cutter. Design for the back of a cell phone. Small designs on the vinyl cutter.

 

If they are cutting today, they will be limited in material to the size of the cell phone. There is some transfer tape on the top of the monitor, They should be aware that the students in the next class also need the transfer tape. They will likely need an exacto knife from the desk, and should return it at the end of class.

 

Nick and Mike - Electricity, modifying remote control vehicles and radios. They may also be using the vinyl cutter to create decals for the car. They should put their work away in a locker.

 

Blade, Aiden, Austin - Using Sketchup to design buildings and phyical spaces. They should make sure they put their work up in the Sketchup Warehouse.

 

Have students shut down computers at the end of class and put their work away.

 

 

5-5-08

FabaPhoto

Sketchup on the warehouse

Output sketchup to the mill or shopbot

 

 

5-2-08

Vinyl cutter

Design your own.

Use gimp to modify your photo

Use the threshold control to alter the photo

Get an image ready for SilkscreenPrintingPictures

 

Sketchup

Put your work in the warehouse.

What can we do to move your work to the mill or shopbot?

 

 

 

 

4-28-08

View of the remainder of the semester

 

RisingEnergyCosts

Vinyl Cutter Projects

Sketchup Projects

Electricity Projects

 

A group/large scale project to finish off the term

 

4-17-08

VinylCutter

Use original designs to make stickers 6 inches by 6 inches or less.

convert photo to a cuttable image file.

 

Sketchup

Design for houses, design for mill

Use the tutorials

there are a bunch of great video tutorials also.

Check the help menu

 

Mill

How do we need to change the documentation of our process?

Run the mill as much as possible to get bugs out of our system working with it.

 

4-16-08

New Student

Welcome Will to class!

 

BuDesign

BuDesignOutreachEmail

 

Vinyl cutter

Original artwork only

Cuts should be less than 6 inches by 6 inches

Check with Mr. Connors if you want to do something larger.

 

Hovercraft

Create documentation of your hovercrafts to show how they work and why.

Take photos and video of them running.

Get them to run on a 9 volt battery so they can be autonomous.

Races?

 

Sketchup

Design for houses, design for the mill.

 

House Design

Hand drawings

Floor Plans

Elevations

 

Mill

Everybody will need to get some experience running the mill

Make note of any odd things that happen while running the files.

 

 

4-14-08

Aerodynamics and hovercraft

Your designs should be based upon information you have found during the project.

Don't rely only on what you already know

Your construction of this project should be largely complete.

Hovercraft Writeup/documentation

Write up an explanation of how the hovercraft works, what design changes you have made and tips for somebody else to follow if they were to make the project on their own.

Include photos and drawings of the device you have made.

 

Vinyl cutter

Use Gimp, Inkscape or paint to create your own design

Transfer the file to the computer with the vinyl cutter

Cut the sticker, put it on transfer tape.

Use the vinyl in connection with another project (joule thief, hovercraft, mill, etc.)

Vinyl cutter writeup

Is the process we are using to create designs in class written up?

Write up a step by step process for making an original design for cutting in vinyl.

 

Sketchup

Make a simple, small design, bring the file over to the mill and cut it.

What can we design to tie in to the joule thief circuit?

Can we design parts for the hovercraft?

How can we combine the mill with vinyl and electronics through sketchup?

 

Mill

Is the set of directions we started with still valid?

Make sure any documentation we create is posted on the dhsfab.pbwiki.com site

See if you can cut throughout the period

Larger files will take longer to cut

What can we design to tie in to the joule thief circuit?

 

House Design

The idea for this project will be to design a house using CAD such as Sketchup and fabricate the parts of the house to make a scale model.

 

The parts can be cut on the mill, shopbot or other tools in the shop.

Passive solar design should be a feature.

Electrification of the house should be a feature.

The materials can be wood, foam core board or cardboard.

We can make the landscape of the building with foam and the shopbot to make a 3d landscape.

Several houses can be combined to make a neighborhood.

 

BuDesign

The Boston University College of Engineering has an annual design competition.

This can be a fun and challenging project.

Information about the competition is here - http://www.bu.edu/eng/design/

Photos of past competitions are here - http://flickr.com/photos/connors934/sets/72157594155726509/

 

 

4-10-08

Aerodynamics and hovercraft

Your designs should be based upon information you have found during the project.

Don't rely only on what you already know

 

Vinyl cutter

Use Gimp, Inkscape or paint to create your own design

Transfer the file to the computer with the vinyl cutter

Cut the sticker, put it on transfer tape.

Use the vinyl in connection with another project (joule thief, hovercraft, mill, etc.)

 

Lathe

video on the lathe with instructions for each of the steps

 

Sketchup

Make a simple, small design, bring the file over to the mill and cut it.

What can we design to tie in to the joule thief circuit?

 

Mill

Move the power strip over to where the devices are.

The light should be plugged in to the power strip.

The vacuum can be plugged in to the outlet instead of the strip

See if you can cut throughout the period

Larger files will take longer to cut

What can we design to tie in to the joule thief circuit?

 

4-9-08

Aerodynamics and hovercraft

Check with me about next steps

Hovercrafts need to have longer power wires

Hovercrafts need directional motors/fans

 

Vinyl cutter

Make your own design, cut it on a sticker

 

Lathe

video on the lathe with instructions for each of the steps

 

Sketchup

check out the basic tutorials

Design an object in sketchup,

http://dhsfab.pbwiki.com/SketchUptoMicroMill

http://dhsfab.pbwiki.com/HelloBlock

 

Micromill

cut parts designed in sketchup

http://dhsfab.pbwiki.com/HelloBlock

 

4-7-08

Botball

update on robotics competition

Hovercraft/aerodynamics

Test and refine.

Your design should make incremental progress

base your design choices on trial and error, success and small failures

 

Mill

Tune the motors, cut a sample part

 

4-3-08

Hovercraft/aerodynamics

Test and refine.

Your design should make incremental progress

base your design choices on trial and error, success and small failures

 

Mill

Tune the motors, cut a sample part

 

Botball Announcement

LOOKING FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN UMASS LOWELL's BOTBALL ROBOTICS TOURNAMENT on SATURDAY. Will look great on your brag sheet. FIinal build is Friday afternoon. We'll be leaving the competition at 6:30 Saturday morning and will get back at 6:30 Saturday night. If you would like to join the team, please see Mrs. Lewis or Mr. Connors for a permission slip.

 

Robotics in June

BU Design Competition - http://www.bu.edu/eng/design/

Audio/blog - http://fussingwithstuff.com/2006/07/022-jim-and-diane-fiset-talk-about-bu.html

Photos - http://flickr.com/photos/13559856@N00/sets/72157594155726509/

 

4-2-08

Mill

Tune the motors, cut a sample part

 

Hovercraft/aerodynamics

Test and refine.

Your design should make incremental progress

base your design choices on trial and error, success and small failures

 

Robotics this weekend

DHS will be competing in a robotics competition this weekend.

If you can make a commitment to Saturday, we would love to have you along.

You will need to get a signed permission slip back asap.

Wed, Thursday and Friday will be after school build/programming sessions.

 

Robotics in June

BU Design Competition - http://www.bu.edu/eng/design/

Audio/blog - http://fussingwithstuff.com/2006/07/022-jim-and-diane-fiset-talk-about-bu.html

Photos - http://flickr.com/photos/13559856@N00/sets/72157594155726509/

 

4-1-08

Mill -

Mach 2 works to drive the steppers

Get those motors tuning!

 

vinyl cutter

circuit design with vinyl

You should be able to draw out your circuit board design, then cut it in vinyl

Multi color vinyl stickers are a very neat thing.

 

Hovercrafts

Here are some links:

Hovercrafts on Make

http://amasci.com/amateur/hovercft.html

CD hovercraft - http://www.questacon.edu.au/html/squad_activities/forces_cd_hovercraft.html

 

 

3-29-08

BU Design Competition - http://www.bu.edu/eng/design/

Audio/blog - http://fussingwithstuff.com/2006/07/022-jim-and-diane-fiset-talk-about-bu.html

Photos - http://flickr.com/photos/13559856@N00/sets/72157594155726509/

 

 

3-25-08

SchematicDiagrams

Draw your circuit with a schematic diagram.

 

3-19-08

Shake flashlight uses a rectifier bridge on stripboard http://www.electroniccrafts.org/?n=Main.Shakelight

 

VinylCutter

If you are making your own design in Gimp, make sure the image is about the size you want the sticker to be. If you have to enlarge the image, you will get a lot of imperfections.

You can also use Paint to create the image you will cut on the vinyl.

 

At this point, we are working with electricity and the DesignProcess.

If you get stuck, find me to get some guidance.

 

3-17-08

DesignProcess

VinylCutter

 

3-12-08

DesignProcess

 

At this point, we are working with electricity and the DesignProcess.

If you get stuck, find me to get some guidance.

 

There are many projects that could be tackled.

Everybody will need to make a circuit board.

Everybody will need to use Computer Aided Design

Everybody will need to make something on the cnc mill.

 


3-11-08

Workflow

Games are not a legitimate activity.

Games will not be a legitimate activity.

At this point, we are working with electricity and the DesignProcess.

If you get stuck, find me to get some guidance.

 

There are many projects that could be tackled.

Everybody will need to make a circuit board.

Everybody will need to use Computer Aided Design

Everybody will need to make something on the cnc mill.


 

3-6-08

Series circuits vs parallel circuits

Using the breadboards to do circuit design

DesignSquad -

ScienceFairNeedsJudges - http://duxtech.pbwiki.com/ScienceFairNeedsJudges


2-29-08

A thousand LEDs

Breadboard for circuit prototyping

What other kinds of circuits can you make?

How can you make a switch?

Where can you find a switch?

How can you adapt a harvested switch to a circuit?

What is a circuit board?

How can you make a circuit board?

 

Are we having fun?

 

Cleanup

 

2-26-08

Complete your own two lights and have them checked off.

When they are done, take them home and use them.

 

Technique for battery box with no solder

 

WorldLight In this project you will work solo or in pairs.

You will need to use the DesignProcess

 

Identify the needs of your intended target group

Who are they?

What do they need?

Where will they use your product?

When will they use your product?

 

Think up some ideas that you think might work for them.

 

Sketch out some ideas

What materials will you need?

What materials are available?

What should your light be able to do other than just light up?

 

 

 

 

2-25-08

Did you get your two lights checked off before vacation?

New red led's available

lights and circuits

 

WorldLight

Make a flash light design which can be used in a third world country

This is a new project. We can go lots of ways with it.

 

2-14-08

Happy Valentine's Day

JouleThief in a case?

Second working circuit?

Check them off with Mr. Connors before the end of the period.

 

2-13-08

JouleThief

Working circuit check by end of period

Is your first circuit in the case yet?

What are your plans for your second circuit?

JouleThiefEval

 

2-12-08

JouleThief

Everybody should have a working circuit this period

By the end of the week - you should have a second working circuit.

You should have the first circuit into a case by the end of the week

You will bring at least the first circuit home this week

Make sure you check with Mr. Connors to make sure your circuit is checked off.

JouleThiefEval

 

2-8-08

JouleThief

Debug the circuit

What can you put the circuit into?

 

 

2-7-08

JouleThief

Make a battery holder out of paper

Solder your LED to your NPN transistor

Solder your battery tabs to your toroid and LED/transistor

LED - Identify the positive and negative leads on any LED

 

loads of info on LEDs - link

pvc flashlight with leds - link

Soldering tutorial - link

Joule Thief video - link

Evil Mad Scientist page on the Joule Thief - link

 

2-5-08

JouleThief

Hand Back

Circuit diagram

components you will need: resistor, LED, transisitor,

Components you will add: make some battery tabs, wire in a switch

Make a battery holder: Folded cardboard or heavy paper

Case installation: What will you put your circuit into?

 

If you are using a mouse:

  • You will need to clear out some of the plastic in the mouse.
  • Wire onto the switches so you can use them.
  • Wire up one switch to start with to keep access to the soldering irons.

 

Return tools to bins at end of class

 

2-4-08

JouleThief

soldering Demo, video - link

connect the wires mechanically

Heat them briefly

The solder should melt onto the wires

Less solder is better than more solder.

Solder on a board, not directly on the table.

Share the soldering iron.

Don't waste the solder.

 

Battery box from cardboard

measure the battery,

Fold and cut a piece of heavy paper to fit around the battery

 

Battery terminal tabs

Use a small piece of copper clad board

Solder a wire to it

This wire will go to your circuit

 

Your ideas

handback

What do you need for supplies?

If it is here, you can use, it. Ask

If it isn't here, you will need to get it.

Micromill and vinyl cutter

 

 

2-1-08

JouleThief

We should be able to make several versions of this circuit. There are a number of ways that you can improve it. There are a number of problems present in its current state. You will need to articulate and solve these problems to make the circuit and its resulting solution your own. Your solution must be more durable than the samples shown.

 

Here are some questions to help get you moving:

What can you put this circuit into?

How can you make this circuit look like it is something else?

Write your ideas on a piece of paper and hand it in.

Have at least two ideas.

Include drawings of what you think it should look like.

Include notes of features you want to add to it.

 

Finding a toroid

Wrapping the toroid

Soldering instructions

Parts you will need for the circuit

Storing your work

Label your work

 

Course Selection

Technology and Engineering

701 Principles of Technology

Half Year

710 Standards Based Technology and Engineering

Full Year, counts as one of your three science requirements

707 Building and Repairing Computers

Half Year

716 Robotics

Half Year

 

Computer Science

201 Introduction to Programming with C++

204 Introduction to Programming with Java

206 Website Design

 

 

1-30-08

Projects for the semester

JouleThief

This project should bring us up to February vacation

You will make the circuit, and you will also make an enclosure for it.

The finished light should not look like a flashlight.

We will make some CAD designs of your completed device.

 

How the Joule thief works

Where to get information on it

Getting the toroid

Motherboards

Wrapping the toroid

Securing your work - bring in a padlock, you can share a locker

we will likely make several of these each

If you want to use white or blue LEDs, we will have to buy them.

If we are buying, what/how many should we order?

 

How can we modify the circuit?

What can we do to put the circuit into a housing?

What can we make it look like?

How can we change its function?

 

 

1-28-08

Welcome to Principles!

First class

IntrotoCourse

Intro to subject

 

Joule Thief

Fab car

Micro Mill

Vinyl Cutter

Scratch and Scratch Boards

 

Course expectations

On task

In class assignments

Homework

Side Projects

 

Robotics team

After school

Programmed in C

Roomba and Gameboy robot

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