Prior to the next class, please submit a short text write up with accompanying drawing images and a video link to the XSEAD site as discussed on the Submissions page. Please be sure to create your project within the appropriate ‘pool’ as linked.
The following questions may not apply exactly to every project but are intended as a guide to our expectations for the detail of the project writeup. Please answer every question relevant to your specific project with text and graphics as appropriate.
The Blackboard area for the course should now be available, please let me know if there are any problems. We have uploaded one reading to the Blackboard files area: Pye_Nature+and+Art+of+Workmanship.pdf
Please come to class Thursday prepared for physical experimentation and documentation as per Exercise 1: http://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/physcomp/s15/16-455/exercise-one-tool-taxonomy/
Just to recap, this should include the following:
1. wear appropriate clothing
2. draw a few notebook diagrams as per exercise item 1.III (expected tool forces and trajectories)
3. find and understand some tool tutorials and expert references as per item 1.IV
4. prepare a simple work plan as per item 1.V
The plan for Thursday is Exercise 1, section 2: applying your tool to material to fabricate a simple form, reflecting on the physical and intuition processes, and documenting the process in video and sketches.
Please take a look through the syllabus sometime soon; it explains the course motivations in more detail and has a more detailed outline of the assignments: http://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/physcomp/s15/16-455/syllabus/
]]>A Spring 2015 undergraduate course at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tue/Thu 10:00AM-11:20AM, Hunt A10
Human dexterous skill embodies a wealth of physical understanding which complements computer-based design and machine fabrication. This project-oriented course explores the duality between hand and machine through the practical development of innovative design and fabrication systems. These systems fluidly combine the expressivity and intuition of physical tools with the scalability and precision of the digital realm. Students will develop novel hybrid design and production workflows combining analog and digital processes to support the design and fabrication of their chosen projects. Specific skills covered include 3D scanning, 3D modeling (CAD), 3D printing (additive manufacturing), computer based sensing, and human-robot interaction design. Areas of interest include architecture, art, and product design.
This course is part of the new Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) program at Carnegie Mellon University and makes use of the new IDEATE@Hunt Collaborative Making Facility in the lower level of Hunt Library. The course is a new elective offered under the Intelligent Environments and Physical Computing concentrations. The prerequisite is one of the appropriate IDeATe portal courses or instructor permission.