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everything's connected but nothing's working !
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# Your (Group) Task
# 1. Your (Group) Task
Each section will design and build a "machine" - this means anything that includes **mechanism, actuation, automation and application**, that just means:
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# Tools, Tools, Tools !
# 2. Tools, Tools, Tools !
> [Ilan](https://web.mit.edu/imoyer/www/index.html) (inventor of [CoreXY](http://www.corexy.com/)) would urge us to think more carefully about "tools" - what does it mean to build a computer-controlled system that acts like a tool, interacting with the world but being mediated by some designer's intent... it's a [foamcore world](https://web.mit.edu/imoyer/www/portfolio/foamcore/index.html).
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# Examples / Ideas
# 3. Examples / Ideas
The machines you design and build **don't need to be complicated** - try to de-risk ideas early, and do stuff that "works right away" rather than complex projects that require hundreds of details to come together all at once in order to work. This can be fun; have fun.
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### [Robot Chainsaw Machine](https://youtu.be/ix68oRfI5Gw?t=1160)
### [Robot Basketball Hoop](https://youtu.be/myO8fxhDRW0?t=598)
# Strategies
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# 4. Strategies
- teamworks!
- have a project manager
- divide into sub-teams, but talk often
- electronics / software
- mechanism
- documentation
- cad/cam ?
- prototype in cardboard, mechanisms can move 'by hand'
- commit to your vision (no backtracking)
- spiral development !
- document all the time, it should be one person's job !
- one page per team,
- note individual contributions on your page
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# Examples from this Kit
# 5. Examples from this Kit
### Framing
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# [The Kit](KIT.md)
# 6. [The Kit](KIT.md)
## [Modular Things !](https://github.com/modular-things/modular-things/)
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# [Extended Resources](LINKS.md)
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# 7. What to Do Now
- elect a contact-person (or dictator)
- have them contact us (Jake and Quentin) (contact info will be in a gitlab issue)
- convene a kickoff meeting, schedule it with us!
- kits, demos, and more to come...
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# 8. [Extended Resources](LINKS.md)
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