week_01 principles and practice, project management
Task
- make a personal website
- plan and sketch a potential semester project
principals and practices
In this part of the lecture we got an introduction to the field of digital fabrication. What is a FabLab, what is digital fabrication, where are we historically, compared to the development of computers, and finally where is the development headed to.
project management
we got an overview of the software and products for communication and project management. A vital part of the fabacademy will be mercurial as a tool to update our website and track the development. In order to represent what we are developing in the fabacademy html-based websites will be the equivalent of a notebook. This part of the lecture was dealing with the different possibilities to program a website - at first the most worrying part of the academy but surprisingly simple and rewarding.
UPDATES
for keeping track of the fabacademy and to organize the tasks i set up a xmind chart. with symbols it is easy to immediately see what is going on and what to focus on. it is very easy to change the symbols when, for example, a task is finished by just right-clicking on it and choose another one.
also the different templates to choose from when setting up a new chart are helpful because they safe a lot of work.