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Week1: principles and practices
As im a noob user of the Fab Lab Leon, i have recently
learnd what
a Fab Lab is, his open minded filosofy and the machines and tools we
could use in them. I think the next revolution from analog to digital
that comes with the fab labs are the next "big bang".
This week we have learn the use of Mercurial as a
version control
software. Also i aid my fab lab to start a repository where the users
of our fab lab could update his web page before it goes definetely to
the MIT mercurial server. (i hope we get all working in a short amount
of time). Mercurial is a great tool, but also is a hard way to approach
the command line for a lot of people.
For the web development i found a relatively simply software to create
web pages. Its called Kompozer,
and its open source. Powered by Mozilla, allow me to create a simple
html from design and, later, access to the code to modify the source
simply and smoothly.
I also made a Dropbox account, to easily access
my important files from the fab lab (i had an important memory loss
problem...too many things in it). And a tumblr blog, where i describe
my personal experience in this Fab Academy (eltercerlugar.tumblr.com)
project management
My
final proyect will be a sort of container of sensors and actuators, so
i can try as much interactions as i can. This container, as a young
geek, will be the best android in the movies: R2D2
The body of
R2D2 will be a press fit container, and inside of
it im going to put numerous sensors and actuators, like:
- Switch: various switches to turn on/off, establish
link
- Fototransistor: The container will know if its day
light or its night.
- Temperature: Could know the temperature and make
different things in some case.
- Position: It will know when its facedown (when he
will scream), when its sideways (he beg to go up) and when its normal
- Image: Will have a cmos sensor, and could take photo
in some cases.
- Sound: ask if there is someone.
- wifi: could have a web page to know his state and
maybe communicate with it by wifi
It could have some servos to move around, and some proximity sensors to
avoid crash to a wall. This will be the final step.
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