Agenda
- Introductions
- Brief course overview, in two parts
- Survey questions
- Logistics:
- Card access
- Web site
- XSEAD
- Blackboard
- Safety
- Machine qualification
- Exercise 1 introduction
- Introduction of tools
- Notebooks
- Pair formation
- Room re-organization
- Begin exercise 1
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/