Week 19

Project development:

Assignment:

• Complete your final project. Please see Final Project Requirements for details.
• Track and document your progress.
• Learning outcomes: Implement project plan. Apply time management techniques. Summarise and communicate the essence of your project development.
• Have you answered these questions?
• What is the deadline? How much time do I have left?
• Jun 12: Final project presentation.
• Jun 19: last date to submit for review in this cycle
• Jun 26: last date for feedback from review
• July 3: last date to submit review feedback
• July 10: last date for decisions in this cycle
• post-evals: did present, didn't finish: rolling reviews up to December 1, didn't present: present at start of January cycle.
• What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?
• Slide
• Video
• Project management
• Pergola
• Final project web page
• Global corrections
• What has worked? what hasn't?
• 3d printed Bearings work but could be better I'm working in a new and better version .
• Nylon guides are to short and do not let the pergola open fully.
• Vertex joints work well for this tiny version of the pergola if the size is increased should be in other materials like PLA.
• Plywood structure work well for the size of this version.
• Drivers A4950 for the motor are not enough to move the retractable system I had to integrate an A3967 incorporated to an easy driver and integrate this to my board.
• What questions need to be resolved?
• I would like to know if there's possible to move my retractable system with the A4950 drivers attached to my output board changing something in the code because I try increasing the speed but it doesn't' work.
• What will happen when?
• I'm working in the documentation of my final project.
• After the presentation I wold like to adjust that tiny details and document all the work that I did.
• What have you learned?
• I learned a lot through the fabacademy new skills related to each assignment and much more when I did the machine and my final project I had to research things that the fabacademy doesn't teach me.

Slide + video:

Project plan evaluation

Make a schedule linking my final project to each week as a spiral development at the beginning of the Fabacademy help me a lot to complete my final project in time because until the planification there are some things that demand more time so in the road I had to adjust my final project to finish in time.