20. Project development¶

This week there was no assignment but we are supposed to work on our final project.

These are few questions we need to answer for this week

What is the deadline? How much time do i have left ?¶

My final presentation is on 17-Jun-2019. So just have less than a week left for final presentation. Good news is that rest of my weeks are updated and i have made significant progress in my local evaluation by incorporating all the week feedback.

What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain ?¶

Wildcard week is still pending
Final assembly of my project is pending
Procurement of material for final assembly is pending
Laser cut / composites to create grow bed is pending
Final documentation for project is pending
Final Video and slide is pending

How will i complete the remaining tasks in time?¶

Key priority is on 8th and 9th June to integrate my final project which i have not done
After final projet is done i will have 1 week to update my pending documetation which is sufficient time to meet the deadline for fabacademy graduation

What has worked and what hasn’t ?¶

What has not worked is that i am unable to integrate food computer brain which is Raspberry pi in my project, though its not mandatory for graduation but this is something i have to do after fab lab
Operationally poor infrastructure at AKGEC has made my jouney a bit unpleasent which could have been great. Breakdown of machines, unavailability of material has led me to work extra hours. We had three instances of SRM breakdown in AKGEC and one of the incident took 1 month to fix, leaving us work overtime to finish assignments.
What has worked is that i am able to learn digital fabrication skills over a period of 6 months. I won’t say i am an expert but certainly i have now got the right foundation

What questions need to be resolved ?¶

How i will take digital fabrication skills and work on UN sustainabiity agenda. For me fablab experience is a key enabler.

What have you learned?¶

Throughout the journey of FABACADEMY i have learnt a lot of things. Every week at lab came with a new lesson. Some of the key things are

Digital fabrication skills which is a key enabler for me
Fab city initiative, something that i am looking forward to implement in india
I still need to learn a lot. Looking at Neil knowledge on things their is a whole platphora of things that i need to understand. So jouney is just starting after fab lab, for now i just have scratched the surface