Prompt

Drawing and sketching are important tools for communicating one's ideas. This is especially true for engineers. They rely on detailed drawings to communicate ideas, share information, and ensure that their designs are created accurately. 

In this activity, you'll learn about how to draw like an engineer. 

Instructions

After reviewing the presentation...

1. Select an animal figurine that you would like to draw (if animal figures are not available, select another object from the classroom. It should be more complex than a pencil). 
2. Hold and rotate the object to see Front, Side, and Top views 
3. Layout your drawing paper to ensure you will have room for each view
4. Start drafting each view (begin with very light lines so you can erase)
5. Once you have everything drawn in light, darken in your lines 
6. Thick lines show overall shape. Thin lines show detail
7. Label your views with Top, Front, and Side
8. Add dimensions to communicate the size of your object

Deliverable

In the responses tab above, create a post and add your orthographic animal drawing and a picture of what you were drawing.

The goal of this exercise is to evaluate your LAMBA Studio experience. This exercise should take you about 20 minutes to complete -- be sure to take your time to thoughtfully complete this survey. As a class, you might want to talk through some of the aspects of the studio experience, and then write your responses later. 

Instructions: In the Response tab, create a new post with your responses to the following questions below. Please copy & paste the bottom portion of this post to your responses.

1. How would you describe the LAMBA  Studio experience in your own words?

2. What did you enjoy the most about the studio?

3. What did you enjoy the least in the studio? How would you improve the learning experience?

4. Name 3 of your favorite assignments from the studio, explain how it was helpful to you as a learner.

5. Did you find the platform helpful in your learning? Why or why not?

6. Did you find the feedback process helpful? What would help improve this interaction in the future?

7. Throughout the studio, you had the opportunity to hear feedback from your Coach, peers, and guest reviewers. What type of feedback did you benefit the most from? 

8. What aspect of your final project are you most proud of and why?

9. How was your collaboration with your partner throughout the studio process? How can collaboration be improved?

10. In the future, what would be a studio topic that would interest you the most? What would you hope to gain from the experience?

Presentations are the story of your project - from early sketches and inspiration, through prototypes and more developed ideas, presentations highlight the pieces of the process that led each student to their latest project.

Prompt

In this assignment, you will compile and create your final presentation, which will become part of your online portfolio of work, able to be shared with the public.

Instructions

Create a post in the "Portfolio" tab of your project folder. This post has two components: the visual presentation and the written project description. Each component is outlined below and should be included in the same post.

Deliverable 1: Visual Presentation

1. Slide 1: Final Photograph with Project title
2. Slide 2: Thesis Statement (1-2 sentence project statement that explains the overall idea of your project)
3. Slide 3: Precedent Image(s)
4. Slides 4-6: Concepts with initial drawings (sketch photographs storyboard)
5. Slides 7-8: Scale Model Photographs - GIFs
6. Slides 9...: Final Diagrams (Story, Use, and Technical)

1. Deliverable 2: Project Statement

Background

• Ensure your backdrop is clean and uncluttered.
• Blank paper is a good option for a background, but check that it is a large enough piece that will fills the camera's field of vision ensuring your model has a clean smooth background.
• Blank walls also work

Lighting

• Light sources can be as simple as a phone torch, flashlight, or desk lamp. Taking your model outside and photographing with the sun is also a great option.
• Experiment with taking photos in a dark space with a one (or two) direct light sources, like a desk lamp.
• Practice positioning your light source at different lengths from the model and angles to observe the shadows and highlights created. This is useful if you have windows, openings and skylights/roof lights in your model and wish to show how light affects the interior space of your design.

Scale

• Whenever possible, include scale figures in your model to give the viewer a sense of how large or small your design is. 
• Try to bring your camera down to the height of one of your scale figures so that the photos appear to be "inside" the structure.

Description 

As we approach the end of the studio, our sessions should shift towards preparation for the final presentation of our projects. The first step of this preparation is the completion of a final, refined, physical prototype of our illuminated product.  

Instructions 

Using the full scale drafted drawing, along with the skills developed in earlier activities, create a final prototype. This prototype should be a development of earlier iterations, taking what you have learned from testing and critique to advance the demonstration of your concept. 

Deliverables 

Once your prototype is complete, record your work with many photographs of your illuminated product. Photograph the project in different setting if applicable. Shoot video of your project functioning. Upload all pictures and video to a blog post. 

Learning Goals    

In the building of a refined prototype, teams will be developing their Creative Confidence through the creation of a physical model that is more developed than previously thought possible through the utilization of skills developed in cardboard construction as well as LED and motor circuits. The final iteration of their conceptual exploration further develops competency in Innovation, the ability to create new solutions to a problem.   

LED Strips are individually addressable ribbons of RGB (red green blue) lights, meaning that each light on the ribbon can be controlled by itself and give off any color on the visible color spectrum. Every light on the strip has its own chip onboard that processes commands given to it by the Arduino.

NeoPixel Library

#include <Adafruit_NeoPixel.h>

Adafruit_NeoPixel strip = Adafruit_NeoPixel(30, 6, NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800);

void setup() {
  strip.begin();
  strip.show();
}

void loop() {
  for (int i = 0; i < strip.numPixels();  i++) {
    strip.setPixelColor(i, strip.Color(255, 0, 0));
  }

  strip.show();

  delay(100);
}