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1 principles and practices1 principles and practices
2 computer-aided design2 computer-aided design
3 computer-controlled cutting3 computer-controlled cutting
4 electronics production4 electronics production
5 3D scanning and printing5 3D scanning and printing
6 electronics design6 electronics design
7 embedded programming7 embedded programming
8 computer-controlled machining8 computer-controlled machining
9 molding and casting9 molding and casting
10 input devices10 input devices
11 output devices11 output devices
12 composites12 composites
13 networking and communications13 networking and communications
14 interface and application programming14 interface and application programming
15 applications and implications15 applications and implications
16 mechanical design, machine design16 mechanical design, machine design
17 invention, intellectual property, and income17 invention, intellectual property, and income
18 project development18 project development
19 project presentation19 project presentation

1_principles and practices

_make a website

wordpress+wp mercurial+Shortcodes Ultimate

At my lab, we decided to use a WordPress platform bearing in mind the local dissemination of the Fab Academy works. Currently, we have already installed WordPress in the Fab Lab Monterrey server, so the next step was to create users.

The WordPress interface is very friendly and also allows installation of plug-ins. In this case, we installed some for:

galleries:
generation of html
clone  mercurial

Here are some of the pictures of the process on the WordPress page:
Captura de pantalla 2015-02-03 a las 1.50.10

Captura de pantalla 2015-02-03 a las 1.50.30

_final project idea

Bits to Transpiration

I called my projects “Bits to Transpiration” because, for now, I imagine a machine able to communicate from biologic perspiration to bits. Right now my idea is not very clear, I believe that during the course I’ll be able to define it a bit better. For the time being, and due to preliminary investigations, I think I might start proposing the following steps:

 

1 cultivation

01

Investigate culture techniques for bacteria or other living organisms. Since I am not an expert, I’ll try with non- hazardous cultures [e.g. Kit]

2 matter

02

If the culture is successful, the next step is to investigate what material or materials might be altered by the bacteria culture [e.g. agar-agar]

3 communication

03

If modification of the material occurs, the next step would be to investigate some strategy to control or at least to communicate with the digital world [e.g. fabduino]

4 programming

04

If all previous steps are validated, the last step would be to design a machine that would help to control or to establish digital communication with the biological phenomenon [e.g. Arduino]

5 object

05

I don’t have a clear idea of how I am going to generate this machine or how this will work, however, for now I’m sharing some images to offer an idea of what I am thinking about [e.g. Jasmyne Graybill]

6 final project

06

in progress…

project management

_mercurial

Practicing a bit, generating .pub public keys from our test server.

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

Captura de pantalla 2015-02-03 a las 2.17.21

 

Repository for Latin America

To manage local files, the Peru team prepared a repository for Latin America:

http://…”local repository”…/mercurial/academy.2015.south.america/

And it also shared the keys with us.

After this, not before, we proceeded to clone the repository:

“academy.2015.south.america”

Firstly, we need to create a folder in our team.

mercurial

$ ls
$ cd Desktop
$ mkdir Archive
$ cd Archive

After this, we will have a folder on our desktop called “Archive”.

archive

Now we can proceed to cloning the repository.


$ hg clone http://..."repository local".../mercurial/academy.2015.south.america/
$ academy.2015.south.america

If all goes well, then you should have a copy of the repository in “Archive”.

archive-02

Inside you can see all folders and files from the cloned repository.

archive-02

Now, we will upload the web page files that we designed, for this we go to the students’ folder.

archive-03

We look for the folder with our name, which at the beginning will be empty.

archive-04

Now we place our first designed pages, in my case: Index, About me and Principles and Practices.

archive-04

Now we are ready to upload our files in the local repository, for this we have to go to the terminal and send the following lines.


$ hg pull
$ hg update
$ hg addremove
$ hg commit -m "message"
$ hg push

If there are no errors, then presto, we have managed to upload our first files to a local repository through mercurial.

It is important to remember that the key has to be well configured; some of the errors in the attempts were due to the key being generated in another directory.

_conclusions

Communicating ideas is very important, but today communication in digital media is essential. In this activity we explore how to achieve it.

On the one hand, using a platform to generate a web site, and on the other hand, a platform to manage these data on a large and complex network such as Fabacademy.

Both platforms used in this activity are WordPress, it appears to be a very good tool to start without too much experience in web design. It is important though to understand its architecture, on the one hand we have different languages: “php” for functions, “css” for style rules and “sql” for databases.

WordPress structure is divided into pages and posts at interface level, and these can be managed with labels and categories. Another important thing in WordPress is the implementation of plug-ins.

In general, WordPress is highly recommended to lose the fear of web design, but if you want to know more, I recommend you often visit the Edit Code Section, which ends up being ideal training in php, css.

As for mercurial, it is important to say that when the project is in collaboration, the system is always at risk of collapse, this not only depends on a virus attack, it can also be due to a simple unintentional mistake. Having many users increases miscommunication and the risk for unexpected errors, affecting everybody’s work.

So it is very important to have a robust data manager, in this regard, mercurial seems to be an excellent tool. It is important to understand that if the main charm is decentralized information, mercurial automatically refreshes the data.

In its structure, we must remember that at the beginning there will be the original file, in the computer or in the server; from its origin you can plan its route. I like mercurial and I have already added it to the tools list to explore in more depth.

_files

Files that are worth sharing in this activity.

wordpress downloaded: https://wordpress.org/
galleries: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/
generation of html: https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-html-to-pages/
clone  mercurial: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mercurial/
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