Announcements
- Opportunities and Events
- Teen coding classes at BPL
- Apply for the Dream Yard Maker Institute (related article in the New Yorker)
- New Media Consortium: Learners as Creators
- Updates
Agenda
- 3:30-3:40: Announcements
- 3:40-4:50: Guest speaker Lining Yao, MIT
- Her paper on bio-printing
- 4:50-5:00: Break
- 5:00-6:00: Updates. What new tech in fab inspires you?
- 6:00-6:20: Prep for next week’s visit to Industry City.
- 2:30: Optional stop at LightsUp. 148 39th Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn.
- 3:30: Industry City Offices. 220 36th Street, Brooklyn.
- 3:40: Makerbot. 148 39th Street.
- 4:30: Green Fig Bakery to discuss your March 3 presentations. 362 36th Street.
- Class will probably end before 6.
- I will send an e-mail with my contact info in case you can’t find the group.
Assignments for Feb 25
- Readings and viewings, in preparation for our field trip next week:
- This chapter on the invention of the fax machine by Henry Petroski’s Invention By Design.
- This chapter on the assembly line in the 21st century from America’s Assembly Line by David Nye. (I will post the link by this weekend.)
- Optional: watch Print the Legend. We might watch some of it in class in March.
- This chapter on the invention of the fax machine by Henry Petroski’s Invention By Design.
- Propose your Phase 1 fabrication project, due March 3. Since you have two weeks, the project can be modest in scope.
- Requirements:
- The project should be of your own design.
- The project should explore the unique capabilities of your fabrication machine.
- Please outline your project plan (similarly to last week’s “Concept to Reality” exercise)
- Problem or challenge you are trying to address
- External factors and constraints
- R&D: Existing related projects and techniques
- Your solution and its innovations or novelties
- Your plan for design and prototyping
- Requirements: