Summer 2019 Course Guide¶
Thanks!¶
Many thanks to the eight students in the SAMS 2019 Pinball Lab for their great work, and many thanks to our great TA for all her support. The students designed and fabricated a new game named ‘Carnegie Wash’ incorporating a number of new features: playfield lighting, spinning ‘car wash’ brushes, pivoting gate barrier, two-rail ramp design, el-wire signage, decal ornamentation, ‘bar graph’ progress display, rollover and target switches, new text animations, new MP3 music system, and electric flippers.
Welcome¶
Please note: this site is from a previous course iteration and is no longer updated.
Welcome to the SAMS 2019 lab: “Engineering a Pinball Machine.” This is the starting page for the course guide, including the syllabus, assignments, and reference materials.
Contents¶
- Summer 2019 Syllabus
- Project Description
- Exercises
- Sample Arduino Code
- Technical Resources
- Reference Resources
- Log Book
- Day 1: (Mon Jul 1) Welcome
- Day 2: (Tue Jul 2) Parametric Design
- Day 3: (Wed Jul 3) Field Trip
- Day 4: (Mon Jul 8) Trip Review, Brainstorming, Arduino Introduction
- Day 5: (Tue Jul 9) Introduction to Electronics
- Day 6: (Thu Jul 11) System Engineering Practice
- Day 7: (Mon Jul 15) Finalizing Design
- Day 8: (Tue Jul 16) Divide and Conquer
- Day 9: (Thu Jul 18) Proof-of-Concept
- Day 10: (Mon Jul 22) Parallel Development
- Day 11: (Tue Jul 23)
- Day 12: (Thu Jul 25)
- Day 13: (Mon Jul 29)
- Day 14: (Tue Jul 30)
- Day 15: (Thu Aug 1)
- Day 16: (Mon Aug 5)
- Day 17: (Tue Aug 6)
- Day 18: (Thu Aug 8) Final Assembly
Links¶
This course is affiliated with the Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) program at Carnegie Mellon University and makes use of the IDeATe facilities in the lower level of Hunt Library.