Principles of Digital fabrication

Principles of Digital Fabrication (521159P) is an introductory course of digital fabrication targeted to any student in our university. Some years we have accepted also secondary and high school students. 

This course is about creating interactive physical prototypes that combine mechanical, electrical and software components. It teaches students to design mechanical parts with solid modeling tools, and to combine those parts together with sensors and actuators (mainly motors and servos) in order to create a physical gadget that interacts with the world around it.

If you are curious to learn more how you can use Fab Lab Oulu processes to satisfy your own needs, do not hesitate to take the course. 

Here you can find the list of projects students are building for Spring 2019. You can follow the progress of their different groups in real time:

 

Project topic	Documentation
Container with Breathalyzer Controlled Lock	https://github.com/jererika/alcolock
A catapult that launches ping-pong balls	https://sites.google.com/edu.oulu.fi/ping-pongcatapult
Doomsday box	https://sites.google.com/view/doomsdaybox/home
Initial D alarm clock	https://sites.google.com/view/initiald-clock
Suicide robot.	https://github.com/fablabgroup/TheTotallyNotSuicidalRobot
Automatic candle extinguishing device	https://sites.google.com/view/candleextinguisher
Remotely controlled catapult	https://sites.google.com/edu.oulu.fi/catapulteam/home
Movement detector	https://sites.google.com/view/principlesofdigitalfabrication/etusivu
Robot Trash Can	https://sites.google.com/view/touch-free-trash-can/front-page
Automatic window blinds	https://digital-fabrication.github.io/
CamBus	https://sites.google.com/view/cambus
Digital coin safe	https://principsofdigifab.gitlab.io/web-site-project/
Converting old laptop to media PC	https://github.com/hirsimaki-markus/laptop-to-media-pc
A smart flower pot with a soil moisture sensor and a pump for water	txjt.ml
A billiard table zamboni	https://drive.google.com/open?id=1soAYEQZaBsqiIP5R0ibJQn09wv1MBzTT
Automatic motorized controller for blinds	https://sites.google.com/view/blindcontroller/home
Bear with proximity detector	https://sites.google.com/view/beme69/etusivu
Smart PiggyBank	https://sites.google.com/view/spb-oulu
Alarm clock with a wire game as the shutdown mechanism	https://gitlab.com/viktor.nordstrom/digifab-group-2019/wikis/home
A fan that starts itself once the temperature rises high enough	https://sites.google.com/view/jepsdocumentation/etusivu
Line follower robot	https://github.com/users/mkyllone/projects/1