Principles and practices

Assignments

#1 - Plan and sketch a potential final project

Fab Labs are struggling with money to remain accessible at low cost, idealy at no cost, to everybody. Fab Lab equipments are quite expensive, not only as a CAPEX but also when in operation.

It sounds fair to me to require members some kind of contribution when they use the equipements extensively. But the issue is the following: Fab Lab cannot afford permanent staff that would control access, meter equipment usage, prepare bills and manage financial transactions manually.

My idea is to provide Fab Labs a device that could be installed in all locations where the FabLab wants to control access and perform automatic metering

References

Lecture

Intro and Fab Labs tour

Recitation

No presentation this week

Topics covered (course) Video recording (course) Students and Labs

Learnings

Meet the team

This first week was an opportunity to present ourself to each other and to discover the people with will spend the next 20 weeks with

Achievements

Setup

I started updating my computer and I installed the required softwares

I listed all the tasks I need to accomplish by the end of the course and I organized them in a GitLab issues list with milestones (not part of Fab Cloud)

I configured my computer in order to push the weekly deliverables to Fab Cloud repository

Capstone

Ideation

I started to write down my ideas and I started thinking how I could bring them to life

My capstone project