Day 11: (Wed Oct 1, Week 6) Project Ideation

Notes for 2025-10-01.

Assignments

  1. First pair assignment: Due Wed Oct 8: Project Proposal. Please submit documentation to Assignment 5 Shared Folder. Please be prepared to show your slides and device in-class to our guest from the Children’s School and discuss your ideas. The overall tone will be informal, but please be prepared.

  2. Due today: Please write a variation of the servo_step.py program (below) to produce a hobby servo motion pattern of your choice. New today: Please also copy your code.py to Assignment 4 Shared Folder under a name which includes your Andrew ID (e.g. garthz.py).

Administrative

Looking ahead, some adjustment

  • Wed Oct 1: in-class ideation

  • Mon Oct 6: more electronics foundations, pair meetings

  • Wed Oct 8: project proposal discussion and device 4 demonstration

I’d like us to have project groups formed and a clear project ideas articulated before the Fall Break. I prefer not to have any assignments due right after the break.

Agenda

  1. Servo motion demos (10 minutes)

    • Please prepare your servo motion demo to show each other.

    • Please also submit your code to Assignment 4 Shared Folder under a new name (see above).

  2. Discussion of the proposal assignment.

  3. In-class ideation (60 minutes) Note: new format this year.

    • full plan at Project: In-Class Ideation

    • round 1: focus on anything which involves sound experiences for children (at any scale)

    • round 2: also open-ended

    • round 3: choose something physically realizable (at any scale)

    • round 4: choose your favorite

    • round 5: focus on an experience feasible within reasonable constraints

    • please write your name on your own pages and turn in at the end

  4. Tentative project group formation.