Sense & Controlundergrad · Sensecontrol: Hot or Cold
  1. Define constraints
  2. Prototype
  3. Test failure
  4. Iterate
  5. Defend tradeoff
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Engineering path

Sense Control

StudentChoose a design brief, predict failure modes, test the prototype, then explain tradeoffs and revise against constraints.
TeacherLook for constraint reasoning, evidence-backed iteration, failure analysis, and transfer to a new design context.
Sense Control feedback design reviewSENSE CONTROL6-8 coreOLLIE's windowsill sensor brief
controller trace
CONTROLLER · READING IS IMPOSSIBLE · fail closed · retry reading

RUN RECORD

nothing run yet
Hint: controllers need a rule for impossible readings.

SenseControl

band 6-8 · mission — · seed —the strip · the band · the race
Missions
Invariant witness
Control is arithmetic on imperfect numbers: every reading carries noise, every threshold controller lives in a band not on a line, and only a loop that keeps reading can cancel what it never predicted.
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A noisy sensor, a thermostat, and two controllers

A control bench with a noisy sensor whose every reading prints, a thermostat whose trace draws its own sawtooth, and a two-controller race under the same disturbance. Commit a prediction before every run.

PredictTestExplainReviseDefendTransfer0/6 evidence steps