1. Principles, practices and project management¶
This is the first week since I enter this project. I worked on creating my final project idea, getting used to the documentation process on my personal site, and enhacing the foundation for further engineering study. I would divide my work to 4 parts as following:
- Set up a personal site
- Work through workflow documenting site
- Form initial final project idea
- Sketch final project drafts
Set up a personal site¶
Since I am a Mac user, the steps of me setting up my site would be different and more complex than normal. After installing Visual Studio Code and Python 3.8.7, I start to set up my SSH key. I type ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "<YOURNAME Macbook>" to Mac terminal end, click Enter, and create a paraphrase key.
After that, I would link SSH key to my Fab Academy site. First, I install mkdocs through visual studio code in terminal by the code pip install mkdocs. And then, I get the SSH clone code from my Fab Lab site. (Click Clone with SSH as image has shown) Type the code git clone LINK //clone with SSH link from your github in terminal to complete this step.
AFTER SET UP/EDIT PERSONAL SITE
Run the following in the visual studio code terminal to upload my personal site.
git add .
git commit -m “Updated Site” //names the update version
git push //pushes the code to your git lab
I could then access the site with my GitLab Fab Academy page.
For the detailed MacOS workflow, here is the doc.
Initial ideas for final project¶
Description
For the final project, I want to design and create an intelligent milk tea machine, which is a smart machine serving customers convinient and tasty milk tea according to their orders. In my assumption, my final milk tea machine should be able to adjust the sweetness of milktea, add ordered toppings, and fulfill the customer’s drink in milk tea cup.
2D & 3D Sketches
According to my ideas and the researches I made online, I did my first electronic 2D draft of milk tea machine in my computer. It has 10 sections for funcioning milk tea machine, including the mixing area, topping area, embellishing area, cleaning area, milk tea replacing area, syrup holding area, and other areas.
Also, I create a 3D hand-drwing version of my first draft. I modified the placement of sections and deleted some unneseccary sections in the 2D draft. The process of conceiving its 3D appearance help me gradually forming the structure of my milk tea machine.
