Week18- Project development

Introduction

Why is the time moving on soooo fast??? The super fablab and the fablab network have the inauguration happening 11 days before the final project presentation and I had to give up a week for that. But it was totally worth it as I got to meet the prince of Bhutan since the super fablab is named after him. Other than that, as soon as the inauguration is done, I returned to fablab BHutan and resumed my works for the final project. Preparing on full swing for the final project.

Picture from the inauguration where the chief guest is HRH Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, the prince of Bhutan

  Note: 
  For the final project, make the videos in landscape
  Take pictures as you go along 

Assignment

Complete your final project, tracking your progress:

• what tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?
• what's working? what's not?
• what questions need to be resolved?
• what will happen when?
• what have you learned?

Q&A

1. What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?

Working fully on final project, I am almost more than half way done.

Tasks completed

• Programming the code in arduino
• Design and milled the final board
• Soldered the components on the board
• Building an app
• 3D printed the bulb holder
• Shop-bot cut the tensegrity table
• Making the presentation video
• Making the presentation slide

Task not completed

• Laser cut the lamp shade holder
• Made crease on the desho paper using Zund for the lamp shade
• Final integration

What's working? what's not?

What is working

• The tensegrity table is standing
• The electronics board is working
• The app is working

What is not working

• First, I just tried to program in the arduino to accept the data from the doppler sensor and the LDR sensor and give the response to the relay and it worked. But I forgot to integrate the bluetooth settings to connect to the app in the programming.
• I made my final project board during the output week and kept provision for I2C, 5V output, 3V output but when I was integrating the final project, I noticed that the board was big to hide inside the tensegrity table.
• I used a photo transistor to sense the light-level but it would not respond to my program.

What questions need to be resolved?

• I have to start the programming all over again.
• I have to design and mill the board again keeping only the components required for the final project.
• I replaced the photo transistor with a LDR sensor and it worked fine. So, I just sticked with LDR sensor.

What will happen when?

• Allocated a day for the board designing and milling and another day for the programming for which i requested fran's help.

What have you learned?

• I have learnt a great deal from Fabacademy especially coding. I intend to drive more into it after fabacademy. Since the fabacademy page is an open-source, using it as a reference was really helpful.
• Fab-academy taught me that learning can be fun as well. Not only learning new machines every week, I learnt to work in groups as well. It was very very fun
• Fab-academy taught me about time-management for sure. Sometimes adhoc works comes and I had to reschedule my work all over again.

Fab-Academy is my fav-Academy!