Day 10: (Thu Feb 13, Week 5) Small Winch Rigging Workshop

Notes for 2025-02-13.

New Assignments

New assignment due Tuesday: please prepare a brief pitch for a specific location and project you’d like to develop. You may refine one of your previous ideas or choose a new one. Please include several detailed sketches showing a visual representation and be prepared to explain your idea. Please post your sketches as images or slides in Exercise 6 Shared Folder.

On Tuesday we will reach tentative commitment on project goals and settle pair and group assignments.

Agenda

  1. Introduction to the equipment:

  2. sample code: StepperScript.ino

  3. objectives:

    • improvise a fabric system which moves under motor power

    • gain experience with capstan drive

    • experiment with counterweighting and rigging

  4. possible solutions:

    • single-ended counterweighted drive

    • loop drive

    • variable-slip drive

    • horizontal or vertical

    • motor script programming