Week 1 - Principles and Practices, Project Management
Assignments
Build a personal site describing you and your final project.
Plan and sketch a potential semester project and add it to your website.
Upload it to the class archive. Work through a git tutorial.
Making a website to share the information requires a good documentation, the information should be useful for others, that is why we must document to the maximum each step of the process of realization of the assignment. Mistakes are as important as the success
Personal site
Learning from 0 is difficult so for the creation of the web site I used a page already created as a base, modifying the bootstrap styles, menus, and contents according to my needs and desired aspect.
To build the web site I have used Brackets and Bootstrap styles.
I used this tutorial to understand what I had used to get started.
I also used a tutorial to understand how Brackets worked. It is also important to know how to write in html, fortunately I already had some experience creating my own webpage in wordpress, here you can learn by typing in "visual" and then see the code in "text". Another way to learn..
The next step is to upload the information to git whit the Git Bash. The basic commands are:
$ git pull
$ git status
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "update web 317"
$ git push
Project - CNC Hot Wire Foam Cutting Machine
Background
As a lab manager I must be attentive to the processes, activities and needs of Lab users, most of the users are students of mechanical engineering, electronics, aerospace and product design.
In work carried out during this year we have detected the need to have a foam cutter to manufacture wings quickly.
In the Lab we have helped in the manufacture of prototype rc aircraft through the tools we have, the prototypes have been manufactured in a successful way but the manufacture of the wings requires a lot of time. What makes the test flights are a real challenge especially for the rc pilot as it faces an unknown plane, in the first flight always crash and the wings are the ones that suffer the most breaks. We need a faster way to fabricate wings.
Initial concept
Design tips:
Replicable.
Control the hot wire tension.
Initial testing with arduino.
Temperature control.
Design and manufacture of PCBs to replace some standard components..
Comply with safety regulations and occupational hazards..