MAS 863: How To Make (Almost) Anything


This course provides a hands-on introduction to the resources for designing and fabricating smart systems. Enrollment is by permission of the instructors, Neil Gershenfeld, Joe Jacobson, Scott Manalis, Joe Paradiso and Ted Selker, based on this application. The class-wide mail alias is mas863.

Project pages of people in the class

Here are the Fall 1999 and Fall 1998 class pages.

 

Date 

Subject

(instructions and tutorials)

Instructors

and TAs

Assignments

9/10  

Design Tools
Input Devices
 

Gershenfeld
(Maguire)  

assignment 1  

9/24  

Machining

DiFrancesco
(Griffith)  

assignment 2

10/1  

3D Printing
NC machining

Jacobson
(McBride, Benhammou)  

assignment 3

10/15  

Laser, Waterjet, NC Knife
Cutting

Chuang
(Ullmer)  

assignment 4

10/22  

Materials and Finishes
 

DiFrancesco
(Griffith, Dobson

assignment 5

10/29  

Forming and Molding

Selker
(Burleson

assignment

11/5  

Analog Electronics
 

Paradiso
(Benbasat)  

assignment

11/19  

Digital Electronics

Paradiso
(Benbasat)  

assignment

11/26  

Microcontrollers
Embedded Operating Systems
 

Shrikumar
(Seetharam)  

assignment

12/3  

Programmable Logic  

Shrikumar
(Post)  

assignment

12/10  

Wired and Wireless Communications 

Gershenfeld
(Reynolds)  

assignment

12/17  

Project Presentations