Fab Academy

Defining my final project & exploring HTML and Git

Jan 22, 2025

This is the first week of Fab Academy! In this week, I had two tasks:

Principles and practices: Plan and sketch a potential

Project management: Student Agreement, learning GIT and building my own personal website

Principles and practices

- Plan and sketch a potencial final project

In the Business Incubator, we conduct training sessions and competitions where participants must present their business ideas. An important aspect is that the presentations (pitches) must be delivered within a set time limit; therefore, for my final project, I thought of designing a timer that can signal the time without causing too much stress to the participants.

The initial design is a cute chick that changes color like a traffic light (green - "you may begin the pitch", yellow - "1 minute left", red - "time is up"). On the back, there will be an OLED screen to display the elapsed time, along with buttons for programming.

Project Management

• 1. Read, sign the student/instructor/lab agreements
  I read the Student agreement. You can find it in this page



• 2. Commit to your repos work through a git tutorial
  To be honest, it wasn't easy, but in the end, I did it!
  
  I started learning about Git and discovered that it is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. I found it to be an interesting tool.
  For this weekly assignment, I followed these steps:
  
  
  • a. Download Git from this page, and installed it with the default settings.
    
  
  
  
  • b. Set up Git with my username and email by following the tutorial Git Simple Cheat Sheet. It was very helpful to follow each command! I also created a key to access my repository from my computer. With the help of my local instructor, I was able to set up my git, and linked it to VS Code. This way, I can edit my files and later sync them up so they show on the Fab Academy website.
    
  
  
  
  • c. Access to Fab Academy Git repository at https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/marita/chang
    
    
  
  
  
  • d. Copy the files from my personal repository to my local computer. I created a folder named Fabacademy on my desktop and used the following commands in Git Bash
    
    
    Once I was in my Fabacademy folder, I cloned my personal files from the Fab Academy repository using git clone with the SSH link.
    
    
    
    In Git Bash, I used git clone and the SSH link
    
  
  
  
  • e. Link with Visual Studio Code (VSC)
    I installed VSC from this page
    
    
    This way, I can edit my files and later sync them so they appear on the Fab Academy website.
    
    
  
  
  
  • 3. Building my personal website
    Since I wanted to be able to customize my website, I found a template from templatemo and edited it to fit my taste, in a way that it offers a simple but pretty, functional display.

  
  Resources
  My Fab Academy Student Agreement is here