Week 18
May 31: Project development
Track your progress
Answering:
what tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain? Is done: Made the first version of the pattern and the 3D screw on spikes Made 2/3 light programs Made a paper hip cage test Milled out and assembled the hip cage Tested sanding it and spraying it black Printed version 2 of the spikes and tested with the led stripes Still remain: Put the led stripes on the cage and connect with silicone covered wires Wrap the hip cage since the spray will not hold long Make a new version of the 3D spikes Change the pattern a bit Make the boards Make the cases for the boards Put the elastic on Make the pocket for the power bank Put everything together what's working? what's not? Using the white HDPE was a mistake but I can get around it by wrapping it otherwise so far things are going okei. what questions need to be resolved? I think I have everything figured out, but we will see how it goes. what will happen when? Over the next week I will be doing everything on the list above. what have you learned? I have learned that using leftovers won’t necessarily save you time or money, just use the right materials its not always worth it to save a buck, it might even cost more in the end to make it work and you should value your time as well. I learned a lot about project management through my time in Fabacademy, since I was doing it with work I had to try to get things done in an acceptable time range which I didn’t always do but learned a lot from it. At one point I got stuck on a project for 3 weeks and was too stubborn to let it go it is why week 9 and 11 are more bare boned, I had to do something simple to catch up for I was so far behind. I realize now that I should have thought about the demand- vs supply-side time management side of things but I was so dem determent to make it work. Like a lot of students I did try at first to document as I go but fast forgot myself in the projects and would document afterwards, I would always take a lot of pictures though and that would help me a lot in the documentation but I do realize it would have been much better to document as I go. As I talked about earlier I did get stuck on one project and spend too much time on it and I realized after that how important spiral development is, to start small and build if you have time, that mindset would have come in handy sooner but when you are learning something you are interested in its sometimes hard to go small, you always want to go big but the way Fabacademy is set up you don’t always have time to go big and you can always go big later after you have learned, after Fabacademy.