Duct Tape Delusions
Amy Smith, Amy Fitzgerald
Thu Jan 23, Fri Jan 24, 01-02:00pm, 4-402
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Who can make the coolest stuff out of duct tape? Come to the Edgerton Center and make your duct tape dreams come true...We'll provide the duct tape, you provide everything else. Entries will be judged in a variety of categories.
The rolls of tape will be given out at the kick-off (1:00 in room 4-402). Final entries will be due at 3:30 on Friday. The Final Awards Ceremony will be held at the MIT Museum at 4:30 on Friday. Co-sponsored by the MIT Museum
Contact: Amy Fitzgerald, 4-406, x3-7931, amyfitz@mit.edu
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Geode Guts: A Competition
Dr. Jim Bales
Schedule: TBD
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
I have two good-sized rocks that are allegedly geodes. You can use the non-destructive method of your choice to estimate the volume of the cavity supposedly inside these rocks. At the end of the term, we open them up, and whoever comes closest gets half of a geode! We will use a reasonable method to ensure entrants (individuals or teams) fair access to the specimen.
Final results announced at end of IAP
Contact: Dr. Jim Bales, 4-406, x3-6178, bales@mit.edu
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High-Speed Video & Motion Analysis Capabilities at the Edgerton Center
Jim Bales, Tony Caloggero
Wed Jan 22, 01-02:30pm, 4-410
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Jan-2003
Single session event
The Edgerton Center has a range of high-speed imaging equipment available for the MIT Communitiy. Use the newest high-speed video camera in our lab, capable of up to 8,000 images per second. These images can be burned onto a CD as .avi files for later review. The Center also has the latest Midas motion-analysis software package from Xcitex, Inc. This analysis package is designed to take high-speed files and track objects automatically, calculating location, velocity, and acceleration on a frame-by-frame basis. Contact either Jim Bales (bales@mit.edu) or Tony Caloggero (3-9782) to sign up.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/edgerton
Contact: Jim Bales, 4-406, x3-6178, bales@mit.edu
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Intro to PCB Layout
Tony Caloggero, Jim Bales
Tue Jan 21, Thu Jan 23, Tue Jan 28, Thu Jan 30, 01-02:30pm, 4-409
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
There are free software packages for laying out printed circuit boards (PCBs), and this activity offers a quick introduction to one such package. We will walk you through some simple designs, and send those designs to a production house so you will get a set of small PCBs bearing your circuit layout. We presume you will be able to get to a PC on the web. If not we will help you work out alternative arrangements.
Contact: Dr. Jim Bales, 4-409, x3-6178, bales@mit.edu
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Introduction to Machine Tools
Fred Cote
Tue Jan 7 thru Fri Jan 10, 09am-12:00pm, 44-022
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 16-Dec-2002
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
This short 12 hour course introduces the milling machine, metal lathe, and related processes; participants will learn by constructing two simple projects.
Contact: Fred Cote, 44-023, x8-7728, fpcote@mit.edu
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Inventors, It's Your Idea - Can You Make It Work?
Doug Carmichael
Wed Jan 22, 02-04:00pm, 5-232
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 07-Jan-2003
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: None
Are you interested in pursuing an idea of your own? This activity will help get you started. You will learn what support is available at the Edgerton Center, including the Spring seminar SP.704 "Turning Ideas into Inventions." You will learn how to apply for UROP funding intended to help students who wish to work on their own inventions and innovations. You will also learn about Lemelson Program support for inventors.
Contact: Doug Carmichael, 5-207, x3-4316, adcarmich@mit.edu
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MITES Reunion Competition
Amy Smith
Mon Jan 27 thru Fri Jan 31, 01-05:00pm, 4-402
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 32 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Preference for MITES Alumni
Do you remember the day after the Mech E Design competition when you said to yourself "If only I could do it again, with what I know now...." Well here's your chance! Come and team up with your former classmates and tutors and relive the MITES experience. We'll have one week to design, build and compete, with no pesky physics problem sets to get in the way. Attendance at the first meeting is mandatory.
Contact: Amy Smith, 4-406, x8-6844, mmadinot@mit.edu
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Piddler Physics: A Competition
Dr. Jim Bales
Schedule: TBD
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Up in Strobe Alley (4th floor of the Infinite Corridor in Building 4) you will find two of Doc Edgerton's "Double Piddler" demonstrations - where streams of green droplets fall (or rise) and collide in slow-motion thanks to the wonders of stroboscopy. If you examine them carefully, you will find many, many different physical phenomena demonstrated in these devices. So, sharpen your eyes, study the double piddlers, and submit a list of all of the physical processes and or phenomena you can observe. Our panel of experts will weed out the erroneous examples and declare the winners, who will receive gift certificates to cool geeky places in the area.
Final results announced at end of IAP
Contact: Dr. Jim Bales, 4-406, x3-6178, bales@mit.edu
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Rockets, Racecars and Robots! Satellites, Submarines and Model Trains!
Amy Fitzgerald
Wed Jan 8, 04-05:30pm, 4-402
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come find out more about the clubs and teams sponsored by the Edgerton Center. WE BUILD COOL STUFF. Check out this lineup: Solar Electric Vehicle Team, MIT Battlebots Team, MIT Rocket Team, ORCA (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team), Formula SAE team, the Tech Model Railroad Club, Mars Gravity Club, and MIT FIRST Team. All these teams will be recruiting new members to work during IAP and beyond.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/edgerton/www/StudentGps.html
Contact: Amy Fitzgerald, 4-406, x3-7931, amyfitz@mit.edu
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