1. digital fabrication principles and practices – 1 week
These are the basics of the fab lab, you use them for the whole entire year or course. The concepts and tools are used throughout the entire section and class and extremely important to all of the final projects and if you make edits to it in the future.
2. computer-aided design, manufacturing, and modeling – 1 week
This is the step before you go to use the machines, this where the students creates and make edits for design online and use them with different outlets on there computer, before you take the design to the printer, cutter or laser, or any prototype design.
3. computer-controlled cutting – 1 week
You use the laser cutter to help you read the designs from your computer and help you to cut out what you created it online, create a touchable laser cutted item, that will match your online designs. You have to use programs like inkscape
4. electronics design and production – 2 weeks
Making compositions design using many different technology platforms, you also create different instruments. You design and create while using this process.
5. computer-controlled machining – 1 week.
You use a shopbot machine to create and program different designs. This helps involve layering different shapes and editing them on the software.
6. embedded programming – 1 week
This process involves using microchips, and other devices that help you to program and make your machine to do things for you. They created this with the help of databases, led lights, online programs.
7. 3D molding and casting – 1 week
This makes you use programs like Sketchup 4 and it makes products to help mold out of negative space.
8. collaborative technical development and project management – 1 week
This makes you use a certain mixture of different digital platforms and machines to create a finished project idea, that involves mashing different surfaces.
9. 3D scanning and printing – 1 week
This uses x y and z axes and programs like tinkercad to help create a 3 dimensional object, which is most of the time out of plastic.
10. sensors, actuators, and displays – 2 weeks
These are devices that help to send messages to program the chip. The levels are different depending on the action and the machine, and it uses a signal to connect the main machine to the chip.
11. interface and application programming – 1 week
This uses data as well as coding to change the computer interface of a computer or device.
12. embedded networking and communications – 1 week
These involved connecting the computer interfaces to program the chip and connect it to a certain board, which is similar the brains of the chip.
13. machine design – 2 weeks
This help you to have to design a machine to create a final project. This includes programming the design and using it.
14. digital fabrication applications and implications – 1 week
This uses several interfaces to make a final project that you can use in the real world.
15. invention, intellectual property, and business models – 1 week
This makes the process of creating and using an idea that is neat and creative and realistic.
16. digital fabrication project development – 2 weeks
This is the creation of many different instruments and finalizing the product, which should include many of the elements from all of the past lessons.