Week.01 Principales and Practices

  • Assignment plan and sketch a potential final project

    • The Fablabs

    In a First Lesson Neil Gershenfeld introduced us to the principals and practice of Fablab, particularly focusing on Fab Chart and the Fablab Network.

    The passage of the speech that I considered the most interesting concerns the relationship between Fablab and research in the new technology field.

  • FabLab 1.0 : computers that control machines
  • FabLab 2.0: machines that create machines

    • Though Neil said that the next future will concern

  • FabLab3.0: where code governs materials
  • FabLab4.0: where programs will govern materials

    • Week.01 HTML Page

    Build a website in HTLM Tag Language

    The second part of the lecture dealt with the html tag language. As first assignment, we started to build our own web page where showing the progress of our work and a summary of the lessons.


    HTML Tag

    This is my first website! I decided to start from Massimo Menichinelli template and to study meaning and function of each tag by W3School.com tutorials, references, and examples.

    What I have chanded:
    During the fab academy I have changed many thing from the first templato to the final web site.

  • Navbar Color
    • in the CSS bootstrap.css I have changed the color of navbar 

    .navbar-default {
  background-color:#333333 ;
  border-color: white;

  • Carousel
    • I have canceled a jumbotron and added a carousel following the instructions in The Carousel Plugin

  • Bookmark
    • I have added a bookmark menu that allow me to have a fast link to the most visited pages during the Fabacademy.

  • Git Hub STL Viewer Embedded
    • I have embedded the Git hub viwer in some assignment there some interesting STL files are present.
    Generic Code
<script src="https://embed.github.com/view/3d/<username>/<repo>/<ref>/<path_to_file>"></script>


    Brackets

    Obviously the site will improve week after week, but now my intention is to use just a simple template until I gain solid basic skills in HTML.
    As HTML editor I have chosen Brackets Brackets.

    Git

    We have also learnt how to use Git for upload our web page in a Fab Academy Archive 2016 

    Git Bash Procedure

  • 1 start FINDING the directory fabacademt2016 in your computer. 
   - CD .. to go up
   - CD /fabacademy2016 to go down

  • 2 "Git pull" comand we can download all the content of the directory

  • 3 "Git status" comand we can read the status of the content of the directory

  • 4 "Git add ." we can add the content of the directory to the archive 

  • 5 "Git commit -m" we can commit the directory to the archive an add some comment 

  • 6 "Git push" we can upload to the web site to the archive 
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    Git Hub

    As Ferdi suggested to everybody I have created a repository for all my files bigger than 1 Mb in a Git Hub account.

    Git Hub by Git Hub Desktop

  • Open an account in Git Hub 

  • Download a Git Hub Desktop

  • Select or create Folders in otu computer

  • Add files into the folders

  • Add files into the folders

  • Open Git Desktop, it show the new files to commit

  • Commit and comment the files 

  • Push Sync button on right top of the screen

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    Git Desktop allow to manage Git Hub repository directly from the computer


    FileMinimizer

    I am going to use a freeware software called FileMinimizer It will reduce the weight of the picture up to 90%. I can do it for a many picture at the same time. In a commercial version allow also to change the extension of the picture. For now, I will use the freeware and I am going ot upload also .jpg but vey light!

    Modelling your Final Project

    After an introduction about different softwares, I decided to use Rhinoceros 5.0 as it is the software I have been used for ten years. Rhinoceros has many plug-in and in the forthcoming weeks I would add some parts to the project using Grasshopper.

    My project is composed by two parts. The first one is the Hardware part namely Podoscope the second one is a soft part, that is to say the 3d printed plantar sole.

    The hardware part: The DIY podoscope

    It is a typical device for analysing the foot type (normal/cavus/flat) of the subject that is being examined. It consists of a lacquered wood frame, a crystal surface and a mirror below. Double side lighting provides a visual image of foot pressure and a representation of load distribution points.

    The Toolkit for DIY podoscope:

    - plywood 10mm

    -- tempered glass 10mm (or colated Plexiglas)

    - mirror

    - two led strips (yellow or blue if the glass or the Plexiglas has no colored reflection)

    - a digital camera with tripod

    The Soft part: from raster image to parametric model
    Raster Image

    From the image obtained through the podoscope we obtain the information that is the input to the generation algorithm of the sole model.

    Copyright © Elia De Tomasi 2016