Experience / Experiment: 1:1
Art Center College of Design, Fall, 2004
http://web-edu.artcenter.edu/estudio/
Units: 3.0
Staff: Michael Fox (mafox@odesco.net)
Lecture / Location: Monday, Friday 9-12, South Building

Exercise_02: Means of Actuation

Due Monday, October 04 (actuated working physical kinetic model + photos /movie posted on the WWW)

The exercise will be assessed on the following criteria:

40% Originality

50% Execution of physical model

10% Timeliness

The point of this exercise is to learn to understand means of actuation.

The importance lies in understanding the most simple and robust way to actuate your model by an outside source.

You have had liberties as to scale and your choice of materials. It is advised to use servos for the purpose of this exercise so that you can become familiar with their limitations but you are by no means limited to them (magnet design and chemistry example were great to see in the first exercise!)

Things to consider is making your model:

· If you are using parallax servos, remember the limited forces and range of speeds

· Integrate available mechanical components (Lego gears, pulleys, etc., found objects, and objects from other mechanical objects.

· Consider that they need to work repeatedly over and over again.