Week #1

Notes

Welcome! This class is ~3 hours, starting at 1:30. Recitation at 10a Friday tentatively.

Welcome! Introduction to class.

• What even is this?
• Philosophy of innovation
• Philosophy of teaching
• My experiences at MIT
• Examples of what you will be doing
• Goals for the class

Introductions from you, then me

• Your slides!
• My background, my projects

Get To Know Each Other!

• Quick interview: share one surprising fact
• Paper airplane contest, teams of two

Logistics

• Meetings, TAs, IRL and hours
• Website and project management

Basic Skills for this week

• Ideation: other student websites, final projects. people, projects, good example page
• Website intro + documentation super basics (web IDE, post an image (NOT A BIG ONE!!!)). cmd-u to see html.
• Supply vs. Demand Project Management
• Document as you go!
• 3D Modeling Intro - basics, sketches + constraints + parameters, importing from McMaster Carr, STEP, STL, OBJ
• Snap fits examples + assignment for Tuesday

Hangout

Pizza and Painting!

Homework

• model a snap fit part (i.e. a LEGO) + 3D print it. Vary the parameter to get a good snap!
• document your process making it (video of you designing it? Screenshots?), and post it online. Make it compressed/small!!!
• start thinking of ideas! Come next time with 2 more projects that inspire you.

Recitation

• 10a tomorrow, in the IRL with Neil. He'll show you some snap fits and help you with your 3D designing and 3D printing.

Links

• Neil's Lecture on 3D Design
• MIT Recitation on 3D Design
• Neil's Website on 3D Design
• Class Discord
• Class Syllabus
• Class Folder
• Fusion360
• McMaster Carr
• FreeCAD

Other Notes

Pushing to the repo.

1. Add ssh-key on your machine, put it in your account on gitlab (instructions)
2. Add user-name to local config (if different than global)

#set global if you haven't used git before
git config --global user.name "Full Name"
git config --global user.email "email@depaul.edu"


#Otherwise set specifics in your project folder (assuming your git isn't tied to DePaul/this id
git config user.name "Full Name"
git config user.email "email@depaul.edu"

#now set up the remote so it knows your username
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin https://<USERNAME>@gitlab.depaulhacks.com/forge/weekly-materials.git
git push --set-upstream origin master