This is the basic scaffold for FabAcademy and the structure that helps people self-teach and produce a project that potentiates their abilities by digital fabrication. Here I have started this process.
FabAcademy is the place to learn digital fabrication. Fabrication has become digital as it reduces errors with each iteration. The culprit of digital fabrication is life. It is constructed by means of small elements combined in multiple diferent ways to make very dissimilar organisms and its error rate is around 10-18.
You can manage if you can measure. Measurement is necessary for constructing processes. Processes are essential for management. Roberto Gallo
Each week, a new skill is learned. And the assignments help have a minimal mastery of the introduced skill.
There are also weekly lectures by several experts. These are optional. But I will try to attend and document all of the expert lectures because they supplement gracefully FabAcademy knowledge.
The assignment for this week is to describe and sketch my final project.
This is a sketch of the project.
My final project is a device designed to link nearby or distant places by way of line of sight light rays for data communication. It is the essential element to make a network where each node will link by way of light rays with others. It should be a peer to peer network. WiFi or LiFi will provide the local network computers and cell phones with a remote data link to the rest of the World. It will be used by communities.
This is the proposed schedule:
| Work schedule | ||
|---|---|---|
| May 14 | Open Kinnect | Embedded programming |
| May 21 | 3D Design in Mods | 4 phases of Molding and Casting the Parabola and the Case |
| May 28 | Documentation catch-up | Final project integration |
| Jun 04 | Documentation polishing | Final project video and slide |
The complete final project propoposal and evolution is described in the project web page.