Agenda

• 2:30: Optional stop at LightsUp. 148 39th Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn.
• 3:30: Makerbot. 147 41st Street, 3^rd floor.
• 4:30: Eyebeam to discuss your March 3 presentations. 34 35th St., 5th floor, Brooklyn.
• 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 due today

• 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.
• Propose your Phase 1 fabrication project, due March 3. Since you have two weeks, the project can be modest in scope.
  • Requirements (see grading sheet here)
    • 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

Announcements

• Opportunities and Events
  • DOE Grad Student Research Program, due May 11
  • 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
  • “Craft Room Machines” post updated with additional 3D printer resources (scroll to bottom)
  • CAM and G-Code tutorial draft
  • Field Trip update