18. Final Project - Planning

The final project is big. So needs proper planning since all fab students will be using the machines.

Table of Content

• Summarise and communicate the essence of a project
• Apply time management techniques
• Contents of the project
• Previous Fab projects using thermo inks:
  • Sketches
• Vision of my Final project
• Evaluate project plan

Summarise and communicate the essence of a project

I use MoSCoW (Must Could Should Would) as a planning priority method - most important on top)

• M. Display digital information using thermocromatic ink
• M. Make the message invisible for most but visible for a few (hidden in plain sight)
• S. Get the wind predictions from the Internet
• S. Show hree days forecast (this is the forecast I use now)
• S. 10 hours of forecast (data every hour or two hours)
• C. Practice ‘Calm design’
• W. Create a visual beautiful result

Apply time management techniques

Planning Final project weeks

Contents of the project

• Print
• Paint
• Frame
• Heatpaths
• MC
• Power for ESP & Heatpaths
• Code

Previous Fab projects using thermo inks:

1. Textiles and Thermoink - Anastasia Tsaparoglou - Fablab Spinderihallerne in Denmark. She tried u use it on textiles, but burned the heatpaths and never was successfully. In her final project she left it out. (she named it ‘photochromic’)
2. Responsive Furniture - Anna Fusté Lleixà - Fablab Barcelona . Used it in her Final project, to heat cabinets. Created an heatpath using a PCB. This is not an option in my project, there is no space to make long copper traces.
3. Controlled PCB Copper Heatpath with a MOSFET - Francesca - Fablab Barcelona. She did not use PWM

Sketches

Using fabric or plastic material in a poster frame dis-form the fabric to display the amount of wind.

One line displaying 3 days	Every day another line	Using LED’s to display the wind

Vision of my Final project

Final project - artist impression

• Use the paintings in the frames from Dalle ore
• Discolor the spices

Evaluate project plan

• My project plan was well planned. But this was not in line with my planning:
  • It took less time to programm the code for getting the data
  • I took far more time debugging code
  • Screen printing was not possible, I should have been doing print (laser copier) in the first spiral
  • Documentation should be planned more. Now I sometimes had not enough at the end of the day