Week 1: Project management¶

Research¶

Throughout the first week, and for the following two, I catch myself enslaved to freedome… It’s been quite difficult to narrow down a set of ideas for the final project when the choices are infinite.

Although, I had this app on my computer, to make mind maps. I set

Mind Map¶

FAB PROJECT
│
├── Foldability
│   │
│   ├── Hinged
│   │   ├── Magnet snap
│   │   ├── Spring
│   │   ├── Click
│   │   ├── Printable mechanism
│   │   └── Hydraulic
│   │
│   └── Creased
│       ├── Pleated
│       └── Printed
│
├── Form
│   │
│   ├── Texture
│   │   ├── Matte
│   │   └── Brushed
│   │
│   └── Bold
│       ├── Rounded
│       └── Defined edges
│
├── Soft
│   │
│   ├── Laser cut
│   │   ├── Rubber
│   │   ├── Felt
│   │   └── Cork
│   │
│   ├── Soft robotics
│   │
│   ├── Cast
│   │   ├── Silicone
│   │   ├── Fine cork
│   │   └── Other
│   │
│   └── Printed
│       ├── TPU
│       └── Other
│
└── Hard
    │
    ├── Wood
    │   ├── Sashimono
    │   └── Kigumi / Shiguchi
    │
    ├── Epoxy / Glass
    ├── Aluminum
    └── Lego materials

Installing Git¶

On macOS git is preinstalled, yet I proceeded to updating it, as I hadn’t used Terminal for a while.

First I checked the version.

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I then installed Homebrew both to update, and download software more swiftly.

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// installing Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh) "

// check version, just in case

brew --version

// updating git

brew upgrade git
git --version

ERROR: git not installed.

After, I turned to chatGPT, pasted the output and found out that the terminal recognized two gits, Apple’s preinstaled, and Homebrew’s not yet installed.

brew install git
git --version

Still giving me an error, to which chatGPT suggested the following command:

which git

// if expected output was not /opt/homebrew/bin/git

hash -r

git --version

All good!

Compressing Images¶

Yet again with Homebrew, I installed Image Magick and compressed my profile picture using the following command:

magick Hrach_Barseghyan_Headshot.png -quality 75 Hrach_Barseghyan_Headshot.jpg

// both reduced the quality, and converted from .png to .jpg

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