Assignment

Read: Syllabus

For the kinetic assignment, pay particular attention to my notes on motors and steppers under Resources/”Energy Converters“, as well as the videos related to generating and conditioning electricity.

Read/Listen: The first half of this September 2022 interview between Ezra Klein and Jesse Jenkins of the Princeton ZERO Lab. [ Podcast | transcript ]. Listen to the ad break (around minute 45) or read to the text “[MUSIC PLAYING]”.

For next week:

• Add documentation link to class spreadsheet.
• Complete the brief intake form covering your interest and experience.
• Post two questions about the syllabus or the podcast to your blog. What are you particularly interested in? Anything you expected to see that you don’t?
• Get the Smil text.
• Find a DC gearmotor (the one from the pcomp parks kit works), and/or a stepper motor. As a general rule, about fist sized is good, and you should be able to turn the shaft by hand (or with pliers if there is a large gear reduction).
• Bring to class next week: multimeter, breadboard, gearmotor and/or stepper.
• Begin to brainstorm what kind of motion you can capture for your kinetic project.

Response