Day 1: (Mon Aug 25, Week 1) Welcome!

Notes for 2025-08-25.

Please bookmark this site: https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/16-223

Please make a tape nametag before we begin.

Agenda

1. Welcome!

   • What is IDeATe?

   • What is Physical Computing? What is a kinetic system?

   • Project focus: music-making machines for children

   • Unspoken prerequisites.

   • 16-223 is a good portal for the IDeATe Physical Computing Minor

2. Examples of previous project:

   • Marble Paint

   • Bottle Organ

3. Mutual introductions, In-Class Exercise: Interview Game

   • Name tags and photos.

4. Administrative

   • Course site: https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/16-223

     • Daily log pages (like this one): Daily Agenda Logbook

     • Canvas

   • My Office Hours and Zoom information (i.e. on request)

   • Laser cutter qualification: see IDeATe Laser Cutters

   • IDeATe will host special fire extinguisher training sessions on-site on Tue Sep 9 at 3:30PM and Wed Sep 10 at 10AM. However, these are after the first laser-cutting assignment.

   • Attendance and lateness policies

   • Health Absence Policy

   • Electronic device policies

   • Google Shared Drive and Data Retention

   • Generative Artificial Intelligence

   • Computing Needs

   • Physical Computing Lab

     • card access

     • for all questions about IDeATe facilities, please email help@ideate.cmu.edu

     • Physical Computing Lab use and abuse

     • we are sharing the room with other classes (see IDeATe PhysComp Lab Calendar)

     • fire exits

     • Federal Law Enforcement Procedure

5. Brief mid-class break
   

6. brief presentation: children and music

7. As needed: brief tour of the IDeATe fabrication facilities.

New Assignments

1. Before the next class, please arrange access to SolidWorks 2025 (the version now in the clusters) and bring a laptop to class. Here are several options:

   1. via https://virtual.andrew.cmu.edu/ (see notes; Omnissa Horizon Client recommended)

   2. by installing on your personal Windows laptop (see notes)

   3. by installing in a compatible Windows virtual machine on your personal computer

2. Please complete the CKS Fall 2025 Skill Survey if you haven’t already. This should just take a few minutes.

3. Please complete laser-cutter training as soon as possible if you have not already done so. Note that we will soon have assignments requiring access, and you are responsible for ensuring your qualification.

   The current procedure is documented on IDeATe Laser Cutters. It includes a in-person EH&S Fire Extinguisher training session, an online EH&S Laser Cutter course, and IDeATe-specific reading and procedure.