Assignments

• Evaluate project plan
• Apply time management techniques
• Summarise and communicate the essence of a project

My funal project ideas have changed many times.

At the beginning of this year's fabacademy course, I was planning to make a cat litter box , cause one of my cat hates other cats use his litter box, so I want to make a selective one that only the cat with the collar comes, the lid will open.

And my second idea is to make a lift container to pass the door key to my airbnb house guest. Cause during that time the door Controlled system was broken, I didn't live in that house , I have to ask the neighbours to open the door for my guests. I did some research. I wanted to use the structure of the bicycle lifter or the automatical curtain system.

But when I really started the final project, I closed my airbnb house, so no need to make this.

And before the presentation of my final project , I decided to make something useful in my office, I spent most of my time in the office and sit besides the desk.

So I started to design a flip canlendar with the function of tomato clock.

Finally , the desicion was made, and it was already May 31st. So I had to push myself and make a plan to make sure that the final project could be finished and presented.

During the development period, I have several business trips and I struggled a lot. I even though of giving up , but Violet and Pablo encouraged me a lot. Violet is busy with her work too, but she could just take every minute to finish the assignments, why couldn't I ? And Pablo encouraged me to explore my limit to finish what I want.

Evaluate project plan

I changed my final project for two times, from the cat litter box to wifi-controlled key box and then to the flip calendar. The good part is I did the research before and get to know how to achive the main funcions. The bad part is I almost ran out of time, I wish I could prepare the presentation image and video on time.

My final presentation will be on June 14th,2019,it's around 10:40 pm local time. And I finished the RGB part and make my atmega328p board, but the code still need to debug, couldn't work sometime.

And I didn't do the final project documentation now, Yufei sent to message on wechat, kept reminding me don't wait till last second to push, plan earlier and do faster.

Apply time management techniques

I didn't make a proper schedule, just rush to finish everything and start working after worktime. So I documented what I've done here:

May 30th

Finish the RGB resin and test

Design the blocks that show the date and laser cut them

Buy the step motor and the driver online.

June 6th

Get clock module from my coworker and programme it with breadboard.

The first version of the code , done.

June 7th

Design and make the structure of the whole calendar

June 9th

First try fo Programming the clock module and stepmotor with arduino and test.

June 11th

Second try fo Programming the clock module and stepmotor with arduino and test. Finish the RGB count down part.And the step motor axle move on time ,need toe figure out how to connect the axle with the calendar.

Press the button and the LED will change the color when it's time

June 12th

Finish the axle connector.

First , I thought it too complicated , and the Yuanhan suggestted me just use the easiest way to solve the problem.

Design and milled the PCB

I milled four boards in case I'll fail during soldering.

June 13th to 14th

solder the PCB

Code the PCB

June 17th

Finish assembling.

Present the final project

I need to list a timetable to remind me and couldn't waste time. But in the meantime, I got a urgency teacher traning task and I have to finish that part before deadline too. Need to figure out how to deal everthing .

DONE	SCHEDULE	TASK
12.6.2019	9.6.2019	Finish PCB soldering and test
20.6.2019	14.6.2019	Finish the documentation
14.6.2019	12.6.2019	Finish the last parts and details on the Final Project documentation
14.6.2019	13.6.2019	Finish the presentation video
14.6.2019	13.6.2019	Finish the presentation slide
14.6.2019	13.6.2019	Prepare for final presentation
14.6.2019	14.6.2018	Present the Final Project for Neil Gershenfeld and the whole Fab Academy 2019 world-wide society

Summarise and communicate the essence of a project

For my project, the main idea is to remind me a good timemanagement and tell myself I should focus on the most important things. I need to choose wisely and learn to refuse some tasks and aim at great outcome of my selected task.

And during the whole develop process, we have some limits that we need to respect.