Day 1: (Mon Jan 13, Week 1) Welcome!

Notes for 2025-01-13.

Please bookmark this site: https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/16-480

I will post a daily agenda page for each class; this will be your essential guide to the progress of the class.

Please make a tape nametag before we begin.

Agenda

1. Introductions

   • Your instructor

   • Brief synopsis of the course objectives

   • Mutual introductions

   • Questions?

2. Viewings

   • Florida Atlantic University, BioRobotics Lab

   • MIT Media Lab - Tangible Media Group

   • Harvard Microrobotics Lab

   • Nicole Hone

   • Interactive Structures Lab

   • Carnegie Mellon University

   • for more, see Related Work Videos

3. student project examples:

   • PneumaFlora

   • Jellyfish

   • grubo

4. Discussion

5. Administrative

   • Tour of the course site

   • Laser cutter qualification: see IDeATe Laser Cutters

   • IDeATe 3D-printing. 3D CAD?

   • IDeATe lab access.

   • Pandemic and Wellness

   • Office Hours and Zoom

   • revised Assessment and Grading

   • Name tags and photos.

6. brief mid-class break if needed
   
   

7. First assignment, due before next class: Exercise: Reading, Searching, and Skimming. Please submit your result as a Google Doc in the Exercise 1 Shared Folder prior to class.

8. Anatomy of a research paper (see [R13])

9. Techniques and skills

   • Reference Management Software, Carnegie Mellon University VPN

   • searching for papers (e.g. IEEE Xplore)

   • citations (e.g. Bibliography of Soft Robotics (S25))

   • DOI

   • Zotero citation export

10. Brief facilities tour

    • silicone casting station

    • laser cutting

    • 3D printing

New Assignment

Due before Wed Jan 15 (next class): Exercise: Reading, Searching, and Skimming. Please submit your result as a Google Doc in the Exercise 1 Shared Folder prior to class.

Viewings

FAU Robotic Jellyfish

MIT Tangible Media Group - Venous Materials

Injecting liquid metal into channels for soft artificial skin