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CAD logic III FRI shaping behavior project Tutor: Alexandr Kalachev This semester’s course will offer students the possibility to choose from one of the following major themes: digital fabrication, robotics and interactive interfaces/ mapping. The digital fabrication group will deal with issues regarding innovative fabrication processes. The students will have to develop and design a component based material informed canopy. Digital tools and experiments as well as physical mockups will be part of the design routine. The structure will have to be self-supportive and it will have to use cheap building material. Participants will be introduced to sustainable building design software, analytical simulations and structural optimization techniques. C The robotics group will have to deal with designing and assembling a autonomous robotized machine and/or system serving particular purpose. The aim of the project is to make participants be able to produce their “Own Tool”, as well as introduce them to the open-source electronic prototyping platfor