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❯ I have a picture of my final project to do list layed out in color coded postit notes. red is the component, green is the first program needed, blue is the
second program needed, yellow is the physical production step. Can you turn it into a work flow for my final project documentation?

⏺ Sure! Share the photo and I'll map it out into a workflow.

❯ [Image #1]
⎿ [Image #1]

⏺ Here's what I can read from the notes, organized as a workflow:

Final Project Workflow

Component: Top

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┐ │ Design (Green) │ CAM Software (Blue) │ Physical Production (Yellow) │ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB Design- Design top (as front PCB?)- Controls for │ G-code in Aspire- Mill edges to match PCB design- │ ShopBot CNC- Mill top │ │ servo to initiate creatures │ Tool paths for inlay │ │ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Fill engraving- Fill with │ │ │ │ conductive material │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘

Component: Cabinet

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Design (Green) │ CAM Software (Blue) │ Physical Production (Yellow) │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Fusion / Meshy- 3D engraving for hinge │ Aspire / Makeron- Tool path for │ Mold- Hinge- Freebit's head │ │ │ hinge │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Cast- Hinge- Freebit's head │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Fusion — Cabinet Design- Front- Back- Wire channels for head / │ Aspire- Tool path for ShopBot │ ShopBot CNC- Cut cabinet: Front, Back, shelves, │ │ gear for latch │ │ joints │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Assemble frames- Front cabinet- Back cabinet │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Component: Creatures / Special Effects

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────────────────┐ │ Design (Green) │ Program 1 (Blue) │ Program 2 │ Physical Production │ │ │ │ (Blue) │ (Yellow) │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Freebit's Head- 2 stepper motors- │ Arduino IDE — Freebit's Head Motions- Y/Z ears- │ │ │ │ Arduino Uno- CNC shield- A4988 drivers │ Controlled through head │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Freebit's Tail- On/off switch- │ │ │ │ │ Random motion │ │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Plants- LEDs- NeoPixels │ Arduino IDE — Plants- LED random- Motion/sound trigger- │ │ │ │ │ On/off switch │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Screechers- Speaker- Battery │ Arduino IDE — Screechers- Motion controlled: make │ │ │ │ │ noise- IR triggered: make noise │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad — Creatures- Vibration/motor- Servo under │ Arduino IDE — Creatures- Random grabs- │ │ │ │ table │ Vibrations/motors- Servo under table- Random controller │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ CorelDraw- Design signs/tags for each creature │ │ │ Laser Cut- Signs for │ │ │ │ │ creatures on wood │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ 3D Print Files — Freebit- Head- Body- Tail │ │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ 3D Print Files — Cage/Habitat- Cage/habitat- │ │ │ │ │ Screecher box │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

A few notes I wasn't fully sure on — can you confirm: - Top row: is it "controls for servo to initiate creatures" or something else? - Freebit's tail bottom items — I could make out "on/off switch" and "random motion" but the last 2–3 lines were hard to read - The creatures KiCad note — is it "bat" creatures or a specific creature name?

Want me to save this as a markdown file in your final project docs?

✻ Sautéed for 55s

❯ "design top as a giant pcb" "controlls for creatures, and future creatures". "Fizzbit" not "Freebit", under green have "on/off switch, servo motor, driver,
micro controller, input sound or motion" make a blue "Arduino IDE - Fizzbit's tail - random motion, quick twitch". for the creatures KiCad it says "___
creatures that eat electronics -"spark" ->led flash, -vibration ->slow speaker? or servo under rubble?" and the blue arduino IED2 note says the same, but
with "random and controlled options"

⏺ Got it — here's the corrected full workflow:

Final Project Workflow

Component: Top

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┐ │ Design (Green) │ CAM Software (Blue) │ Physical Production (Yellow) │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB Design- Design top as a giant PCB- Controls for │ G-code in Aspire- Mill edges to match PCB design- │ ShopBot CNC- Mill top │ │ creatures, and future creatures │ Tool paths for inlay │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Fill engraving- Fill with │ │ │ │ conductive material │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘

Component: Cabinet

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Design (Green) │ CAM Software (Blue) │ Physical Production (Yellow) │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Fusion / Meshy- 3D engraving for hinge │ Aspire / Makeron- Tool path for │ Mold- Hinge- Fizzbit's head │ │ │ hinge │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Cast- Hinge- Fizzbit's head │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Fusion — Cabinet Design- Front- Back- Wire channels for head / │ Aspire- Tool path for ShopBot │ ShopBot CNC- Cut cabinet: Front, Back, shelves, │ │ gear for latch │ │ joints │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Assemble frames- Front cabinet- Back cabinet │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Component: Creatures / Special Effects

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐ │ Design (Green) │ Program 1 (Blue) │ Physical Production │ │ │ │ (Yellow) │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Fizzbit's Head- 2 stepper motors- Arduino Uno- │ Arduino IDE — Fizzbit's Head Motions- Y/Z ears- │ │ │ CNC shield- A4988 drivers │ Controlled through head │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Fizzbit's Tail- On/off switch- Servo motor- │ Arduino IDE — Fizzbit's Tail- Random motion- Quick │ │ │ Driver- Microcontroller- Input: sound or motion │ twitch │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Plants- LEDs- NeoPixels │ Arduino IDE — Plants- LED random- Motion/sound trigger- │ │ │ │ On/off switch │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Screechers- Speaker- Battery │ Arduino IDE — Screechers- Motion controlled: make │ │ │ │ noise- IR triggered: make noise │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad — ___ Creatures that eat electronics- "Spark" → LED flash- │ Arduino IDE 2 — ___ Creatures that eat electronics- │ │ │ Vibration → slow speaker?- Or servo under rubble? │ Same as above- Random and controlled options │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ CorelDraw- Design signs/tags for each creature │ │ Laser Cut- Signs for │ │ │ │ creatures on wood │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ 3D Print Files — Fizzbit- Head- Body- Tail │ │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ 3D Print Files — Cage/Habitat- Cage/habitat- Screecher box │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

Want me to save this as a markdown file in your final project docs folder?

❯ create another column for physical production 2 (yellow). The second set of yellow postits were a second step in the production, and need to be done after
the first.

⏺ --- Final Project Workflow

Component: Top

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Design (Green) │ CAM Software (Blue) │ Physical Production │ Physical Production 2 │ │ │ │ 1 (Yellow) │ (Yellow) │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB Design- Design top as a giant PCB- │ G-code in Aspire- Mill edges to match PCB │ ShopBot CNC- Mill │ Fill engraving- Fill with │ │ Controls for creatures, and future creatures │ design- Tool paths for inlay │ top │ conductive material │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘

Component: Cabinet

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐ │ Design (Green) │ CAM Software (Blue) │ Physical Production 1 (Yellow) │ Physical Production 2 (Yellow) │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤ │ Fusion / Meshy- 3D engraving for hinge │ Aspire / Makeron- Tool │ Mold- Hinge- Fizzbit's head │ Cast- Hinge- Fizzbit's head │ │ │ path for hinge │ │ │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤ │ Fusion — Cabinet Design- Front- Back- Wire │ Aspire- Tool path for │ ShopBot CNC- Cut cabinet: Front, │ Assemble Frames- Front │ │ channels for head / gear for latch │ ShopBot │ Back, shelves, joints │ cabinet- Back cabinet │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

Component: Creatures / Special Effects

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┬────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Physical Production 1 │ Physical │ │ Design (Green) │ Program 1 (Blue) │ (Yellow) │ Production 2 │ │ │ │ │ (Yellow) │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Fizzbit's Head- 2 stepper motors- │ Arduino IDE — Fizzbit's Head Motions- Y/Z │ │ │ │ Arduino Uno- CNC shield- A4988 drivers │ ears- Controlled through head │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Fizzbit's Tail- On/off switch- Servo │ Arduino IDE — Fizzbit's Tail- Random motion- │ │ │ │ motor- Driver- Microcontroller- Input: sound or motion │ Quick twitch │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Plants- LEDs- NeoPixels │ Arduino IDE — Plants- LED random- Motion/sound │ │ │ │ │ trigger- On/off switch │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ KiCad PCB board — Screechers- Speaker- Battery │ Arduino IDE — Screechers- Motion controlled: │ │ │ │ │ make noise- IR triggered: make noise │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ KiCad — ___ Creatures that eat electronics- "Spark" → │ Arduino IDE 2 — ___ Creatures that eat │ │ │ │ LED flash- Vibration → slow speaker?- Or servo under │ electronics- Same as above- Random and │ │ │ │ rubble? │ controlled options │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ CorelDraw- Design signs/tags for each creature │ │ Laser Cut- Signs for │ │ │ │ │ creatures on wood │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ 3D Print Files — Fizzbit- Head- Body- Tail │ │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ 3D Print Files — Cage/Habitat- Cage/habitat- Screecher │ │ │ │ │ box │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┴────────────────────┘

The creatures section doesn't appear to have second yellow steps from the photo — let me know if any of those rows need a Physical Production 2 entry. Ready to save this as a file when you are.

❯ yes, save as "final-project-to-do.md" in the final-project folder.

Searched for 1 pattern (ctrl+o to expand)

⏺ Write(docs/final-project/final-project-to-do.md)

⏺ Reticulating…
⎿ Wrote 35 lines to docs/final-project/final-project-to-do.md ─ 1 # Final Project To-Do────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ❯ 2
3 Color code: Red = component | Green = design software | Blue = programming | Yellow = physical production
sc 4 interrupt /buddy 5 ---
6
7 ## Component: Top
8
9 | Design (Green) | CAM Software (Blue) | Physical Production 1 (Yellow) | Physical Production 2 (Yellow) |
10 |---|---|---|---|
… +25 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

⏺ Bash(git add docs/final-project/final-project-to-do.md && git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
Add final project to-do workflow from color-coded post-it notes…)
⎿ [main 36c0d45] Add final project to-do workflow from color-coded post-it notes
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 docs/final-project/final-project-to-do.md
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⏺ Saved and pushed to docs/final-project/final-project-to-do.md. Fill in the Physical Production 2 column for the creatures rows whenever you're ready, and let me know if any other post-it details come back to you — like the creature name that "eats electronics."
❯ can you make a Gantt chart or a Kanban board from my workflow?

⏺ Both are possible — let me check if Mermaid is set up in your MkDocs config first, since that would let both render on the website.

Searched for 3 patterns, read 1 file (ctrl+o to expand)

⏺ You're using MkDocs Material, which supports Mermaid but needs a small config update first. Here are your two options:

Kanban board — works right now, no config changes needed. Columns like To Do | In Progress | Done with all your tasks as checkboxes. Good for tracking progress as you work.

Gantt chart — needs Mermaid enabled in mkdocs.yml (a 4-line addition). Shows your tasks on a timeline with dependencies, so you can see what needs to happen before what. Good for planning the remaining weeks.

Which would you like — or both? And if Gantt, do you have a target finish date in mind so I can lay out the timeline?

✻ Brewed for 31s

❯ both, and my finishing date is 6/3/2026

⏺ I'll update mkdocs.yml to enable Mermaid, then add both to the to-do file.

⏺ Update(mkdocs.yml) ⎿ Added 5 lines, removed 1 line 56 - admonition 57 - pymdownx.highlight: 58 guess_lang: false 59 - - pymdownx.superfences
59 + - pymdownx.superfences:
60 + custom_fences:
61 + - name: mermaid
62 + class: mermaid
63 + format: !!python/name:pymdownx.superfences.fence_code_format
64 - pymdownx.tasklist: 65 custom_checkbox: true 66 - toc:

⏺ Update(mkdocs.yml) ⎿ Added 3 lines 65 custom_checkbox: true 66 - toc: 67 permalink: true 68 +
69 +extra_javascript:
70 + - https://unpkg.com/mermaid@10/dist/mermaid.min.js

⏺ Now write the updated to-do file with both charts:

⏺ Write(docs/final-project/final-project-to-do.md) ⎿ Added 115 lines, removed 7 lines 4
5 ---
6
7 -## Component: Top
7 +## Gantt Chart
8
9 +mermaid 10 +gantt 11 + title Final Project Timeline — Target: June 3, 2026 12 + dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD 13 + excludes weekends 14 + 15 + section Top 16 + KiCad PCB Design :a1, 2026-04-27, 5d 17 + G-code in Aspire :a2, after a1, 3d 18 + ShopBot CNC — Mill Top :a3, after a2, 2d 19 + Fill Engraving :a4, after a3, 2d 20 + 21 + section Cabinet 22 + Fusion/Meshy — Hinge Design :b1, 2026-04-27, 4d 23 + Aspire — Hinge Tool Path :b2, after b1, 2d 24 + Mold: Hinge + Fizzbit Head :b3, after b2, 3d 25 + Cast: Hinge + Fizzbit Head :b4, after b3, 3d 26 + Fusion — Cabinet Design :b5, 2026-04-27, 6d 27 + Aspire — Cabinet Tool Path :b6, after b5, 3d 28 + ShopBot CNC — Cut Cabinet :b7, after b6, 3d 29 + Assemble Frames :b8, after b7, 2d 30 + 31 + section Creatures — Design + PCB 32 + KiCad — Fizzbit Head PCB :c1, 2026-04-27, 5d 33 + KiCad — Fizzbit Tail PCB :c2, after c1, 4d 34 + KiCad — Plants PCB :c3, 2026-04-27, 4d 35 + KiCad — Screechers PCB :c4, after c3, 4d 36 + KiCad — Eating Creatures PCB :c5, after c4, 4d 37 + CorelDraw — Creature Signs :c6, 2026-05-11, 3d 38 + 39 + section Creatures — Programming 40 + Arduino — Fizzbit Head :d1, after c1, 5d 41 + Arduino — Fizzbit Tail :d2, after c2, 4d 42 + Arduino — Plants :d3, after c3, 4d 43 + Arduino — Screechers :d4, after c4, 4d 44 + Arduino — Eating Creatures :d5, after c5, 5d 45 + 46 + section Physical Production 47 + 3D Print — Fizzbit :e1, 2026-05-04, 7d 48 + 3D Print — Cage + Screecher Box :e2, after e1, 7d 49 + Laser Cut — Creature Signs :e3, after c6, 2d 50 + 51 + section Final Assembly 52 + Full Assembly + Testing :f1, 2026-05-25, 7d 53 + Documentation Complete :milestone, crit, 2026-06-03, 0d 54 +
55 +
56 +---
57 +
58 +## Kanban Board
59 +
60 +### Top
61 +
62 +| To Do | In Progress | Done |
63 +|---|---|---|
64 +| KiCad PCB Design — design top as giant PCB | | |
65 +| KiCad — controls for creatures and future creatures | | |
66 +| G-code in Aspire — mill edges to match PCB design | | |
67 +| G-code in Aspire — tool paths for inlay | | |
68 +| ShopBot CNC — mill top | | |
69 +| Fill engraving with conductive material | | |
70 +
71 +### Cabinet
72 +
73 +| To Do | In Progress | Done |
74 +|---|---|---|
75 +| Fusion/Meshy — 3D engraving for hinge | | |
76 +| Aspire — tool path for hinge | | |
77 +| Mold: hinge | | |
78 +| Mold: Fizzbit's head | | |
79 +| Cast: hinge | | |
80 +| Cast: Fizzbit's head | | |
81 +| Fusion — cabinet design: front | | |
82 +| Fusion — cabinet design: back | | |
83 +| Fusion — wire channels for head / gear for latch | | |
84 +| Aspire — tool path for ShopBot | | |
85 +| ShopBot CNC — cut front | | |
86 +| ShopBot CNC — cut back | | |
87 +| ShopBot CNC — cut shelves and joints | | |
88 +| Assemble front cabinet frame | | |
89 +| Assemble back cabinet frame | | |
90 +
91 +### Creatures / Special Effects
92 +
93 +| To Do | In Progress | Done |
94 +|---|---|---|
95 +| KiCad PCB — Fizzbit's head (2 steppers, Arduino Uno, CNC shield, A4988) | | |
96 +| Arduino IDE — Fizzbit's head motions (Y/Z ears, controlled through head) | | |
97 +| KiCad PCB — Fizzbit's tail (on/off switch, servo, driver, MCU, sound/motion input) | | |
98 +| Arduino IDE — Fizzbit's tail (random motion, quick twitch) | | |
99 +| KiCad PCB — Plants (LEDs, NeoPixels) | | |
100 +| Arduino IDE — Plants (LED random, motion/sound trigger, on/off switch) | | |
101 +| KiCad PCB — Screechers (speaker, battery) | | |
102 +| Arduino IDE — Screechers (motion controlled, IR triggered) | | |
103 +| KiCad — ___ Creatures that eat electronics (spark → LED flash, vibration → speaker, servo under rubble) | | |
104 +| Arduino IDE 2 — Eating creatures (random and controlled options) | | |
105 +| CorelDraw — design signs/tags for each creature | | |
106 +| Laser cut — signs for creatures on wood | | |
107 +| 3D print — Fizzbit head | | |
108 +| 3D print — Fizzbit body | | |
109 +| 3D print — Fizzbit tail | | |
110 +| 3D print — cage/habitat | | |
111 +| 3D print — screecher box | | |
112 +
113 +---
114 +
115 +## Workflow by Component
116 +
117 +Color code: Green = design | Blue = programming | Yellow = physical production
118 +
119 +### Component: Top
120 +
121 | Design (Green) | CAM Software (Blue) | Physical Production 1 (Yellow) | Physical Production 2 (Yellow) | 122 |---|---|---|---| 123 | KiCad PCB Design
- Design top as a giant PCB
- Controls for creatures, and future creatures | G-code in Aspire
- Mill edges to match PCB design
- Tool paths for inlay | ShopBot CNC
- Mill top | Fill engraving
- Fill with conductive material | 124
13 ----
125 +### Component: Cabinet
126
15 -## Component: Cabinet
16 -
127 | Design (Green) | CAM Software (Blue) | Physical Production 1 (Yellow) | Physical Production 2 (Yellow) | 128 |---|---|---|---| 129 | Fusion / Meshy
- 3D engraving for hinge | Aspire / Makeron
- Tool path for hinge | Mold
- Hinge
- Fizzbit's head | * Cast
- Hinge
- Fizzbit's head | 130 | Fusion — Cabinet Design
- Front
- Back
- Wire channels for head / gear for latch | Aspire
- Tool path for ShopBot | Sh opBot CNC
- Cut cabinet: Front, Back, shelves, joints | Assemble Frames
- Front cabinet
- Back cabinet | 131
22 ----
132 +### Component: Creatures / Special Effects
133
24 -## Component: Creatures / Special Effects
25 -
134 | Design (Green) | Program (Blue) | Physical Production 1 (Yellow) | Physical Production 2 (Yellow) | 135 |---|---|---|---| 136 | KiCad PCB board — Fizzbit's Head
- 2 stepper motors
- Arduino Uno
- CNC shield
- A4988 drivers | Arduino IDE — Fizzbit's H ead Motions*
- Y/Z ears
- Controlled through head | | |

⏺ Bash(git add mkdocs.yml docs/final-project/final-project-to-do.md && git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF' Add Gantt chart and Kanban board to final project to-do; enable Mer…)
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⏺ Done and pushed. Here's what was added:

Gantt chart — timeline from now to June 3, weekends excluded. Shows all three components running in parallel where possible, with dependencies between
design → CAM → production steps. The June 3 deadline is marked as a milestone.
Kanban board — all tasks listed in "To Do" across three sections. As you work, you can move tasks to "In Progress" or "Done" by editing the table cells.
Mermaid enabled in mkdocs.yml so the Gantt renders on the live site.

As you complete tasks, just update the Kanban table and let me know — I can move items to Done and keep it current.