experimentation

make it happen

As this is one of the last weeks at fab academy, everyone is focusing on the topic of the final project. My aim for this week: I am rethinking all the details of my final project and since we are one of the first students at Barcelona lab presenting (our presentations are happening already 12.06.2019) we need to hurry up with everything and also to prepare the final output - presentation slide and video.

The core components of my final project required for the evaluation can be found here on those pages: concept, process, result.

what tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?

Due to the amount of work that has gone into this project I am also dividing the process into tree parts: Design, electronics and programming. The planning of my final project is described in week 12 assignment - applications and implications.

what has worked? what hasn't?

Things were working and also not. I believe I kept a good track with design part, and made most of the planned tasks, there was a problem with the NodeMCU and wifi connection, so I am affraid my plan with the voice recognition app will be difficult to acomplish in time. Lets see. As Neis said, we all will definitely run out of time. So it might be my case too.

what questions need to be resolved?

As mentioned before, the part with Wifi and App are still missing, and waiting to be resolved and implemented within the project. I also would like to explote possibility of powering my board in different way than using a port on my comp. e.g. wireless :)

what will happen when?

On Wednesday 12.06. there is a start of the Final Project Presentation phase and we in Barcelona are one of the first students to present our projects. So the plan is to accomplish as much as possible till that day! There is not much time left to make big changes in the concept, so I continue with what was planned. My goal is to just put everything together by the end of the weekend, make a small photoshoot of my lamp, produce the presentation slide and 1-minute video on Tuesday.

what have you learned?

I learned how to turn codes into things and how to make almost anything :D This is what fab academy is promissing to teach. I had very intense multi-disciplinary and hands-on learning experience learn-by-doing. I have learned a lot of new stuff, only thing am actually sad that I havent learned is Spanish language here...Than I explored how to work with sensors, input/outputs, app creation, a lot of coding. And how to document.

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useful links

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