2.007  Design and Manufacturing I

Hello all,
I would appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes to fill out this quick survey about Mini-Me. We would like get some feedback on how we can make Mini-Me even better and how you thought Mini-Me helped you achieve your overall goals in this course.

Here is the link: spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform

Thanks!
Daniela

Great job everyone!  I think the festivities were wonderful.  I'm hearing lots of nice feedback, especially from youngsters who enjoyed seeing the robots, cars, bikes, videos, and technology demos.

This weekend might be a good time to write up your reflections and learnings in your design notebook, while it's still fresh in your minds.

Here are the links for the two rounds of the competition:

Preliminary round:
http://amps-web.amps.ms.mit.edu/public/courses/2/2.007/2010-2011/prelim/

Final round:
http://amps-web.amps.ms.mit.edu/public/courses/2/2.007/2010-2011/finals/

At the end of each days activities we will post an on-demand at the same link used for the live connection. These links are usually in place about 30 minutes after the event ends.
I will email when each on-demand link is made available.

Here are the associated letter grades for Exam 1:

95 - 100 A+
90 - 94 A
85 - 89 A-
83 - 84 B+
80 - 82 B
75 - 79 B-
70 - 74 C+
65 - 69 C
60 - 64 C-
50 - 59 D
49 or less F

Here are the letter grades for Exam 2:

95 and higher A+
90 - 94 A
85 - 89 A-
B+
80 - 84 B
76 - 79 B-
70 - 75 C
60 - 69 D
Below 59 F (there were none of these)

Dear 2.007 students:

This is an importnat week in 2.007.  We need to bring the activity of constructing these machines to an end.  The procedures for recording a seeding score and "impounding" your robot are published on Stellar under "MATERIALS/Contest Rules and Prodecures".  Your section istructor will issue you a seeding card.  Please fill it out and keep it with your robot this week.  When you're done, put the card in the box with the slot in the top.

In addition to the lab work, we also have two lectures.  Tomorrow is a lecture on optimization.  Although it may be too late to extensively optimize your robots, this topic will help you with some aspects of completing your robot and should also give you a glimpse of some material coming later on 2.086.  Thursday is a lecture on ethics.  I will not take attendance, but this is an importnat topic and I ask that you please come and pay attention.

- Dan Frey