Hello 2nd year Engphys students, and welcome to 253.
Download the complete talk: ENPH253-2018-kickoff-2017Nov
1. Previous Competitions
- Summer 2017 – Mission ImpossiBots
- Summer 2016 – Uber-Bots
- Summer 2015 – Pet Rescue Bots
- Summer 2014 – Indiana Robot!
- Summer 2013 – Whac-A-Mole
- Summer 2012 – Build-Bots
- Summer 2011 – Climber-Bots
- Summer 2010 – Robo-Racers
- Summer 2009 – Rescue-Bots
- Summer 2008 – Doctor-Bots.
2. Sample Senior Projects
- list of available projects for (~60posted online this year).
- Self-sponsored entrepreneurial projects can be supported by the Engphys-sponsored Bycast Award
- Kirk Madison Quantum Degenerate Gasses Lab
- Light Integra / Elisabeth Maurer
- Iris Automation
- DOtS Cam videos – Test1 Test2 Test2 Camera view
- Bycast Award to Promote Entrepreneurship in Engineering Physics
- AMS Sustainability Project Fund – over $90k/year available for student-initiated projects.
3. Ways to get ready for 253
- SolidWorks for UBC APSC Students (you can get the SDK now, you’ll use the SEK during the summer for ENPH 253 + ENPH 257 thermo)
- Learn from online vendors
- Newark Electronics – our course sponsor, and seller of the widest selection of electronics components.
- sparkfun.com, Product vendor with a great project listings and online forum
- robotshop.ca Product vendor in Canada
- McMaster-Carr – Product vendor for mechanical items. Hundreds of thousands of mechanical things. Everything. You. Could. Ever.Imagine.
- Read up on the TINAH board
- This is based on the Wiring board, a close cousin of the Arduino boards that have become quite popular the last few years.
- Arduino Board is avaialble for $30 online from Robotshop.ca, or in town at Lee’s Electronics on Main St.
- Learning how stuff is made, how to take it apart.
- Fundamentals of Design – Alex Slocum at MIT runs the PERG lab, and led the MECH 2.007 course for years. This guide is a fantastic (and relatively thorough) introduction to all mechanical design elements.
- howstuffworks.com Self-explanatory
- makezine.com Step-by-step guides and projects.
- instructables.com
- ifixit.com Teardowns See the insides of new products within days of product release (iphones, xbox’s, etc.etc.) The Pleo dinosaur Teardown is particularly good.
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