#Exercise_1

27/01/2016

Assignment

• Build a personal webpage
• Final project concept
• Final project management

Build a webpage template

I have started with all the others students to design the wireframe of the lab page and the template for the students website. After that I have wrote the landing page of the lab and the student tempalte page to, I have used only simple .html and .css.

I used a tutorial in order to draw a stripes header, available at this link, and I also used the html and css references available at the W3schools website.

In conclusion I have shared the template with the oder students, and released in cc. Moreover there are still some bugs, but I will try to fix it.

For more information, please see the code with the relative comments.

a snippet of the header css code

Setting up Git

The web page is hosted on Gitlab, a platform that allow to push files online and is a collaborative coding tool that use some simples terminal command. The first step was to install git on my computer, setup the lab repository, generate and setup the ssh keys in order to allow me pushing all the files, I have used this guide.

After the lesson I have made some git practice with this useful platform.

Push the webpage on gitlab Fablab Torino repository

To push the website online I have did these simples operations using the git terminal:

• $ git clone username@host:/path/to/repository [cloning the remote repository pre-initialized]
• $ git status [check the repo status]
• $ git add "filename" [add changes to index] or
• $ git add * [add all files to the index changes]
• $ git commit -m "message" [commit changes]
• $ git pull [update local repo before push]
• $ git push origin master [push changes to remote repo]

useful git cheat sheet

Final project Concept

For my final project I would like to develop a big plastic pellet extruder, to use it with the 6 axis robot arm. This project will allow our research about robotic 3D printing to experiment with a large range of materils, personalized mix of plastic and recycled plastic. The aim of the research is to print very large objects with a computational approach and different materials; so we can't use a standard nozle because have the limits of a little diameter.

Is important that the extruder will have these characteristics:

• keep the parts list fairly simple and available through the traditional network of stores known to the makers
• completely replicable in a FabLab
• Keep the final cost of the extruder under 200 euro
• Make the extruder as easyast as possible to build
• ability to contain a large amount of plastic

Project parts to design:

• complete extruder system
• 500mm aluminum pipe
• 1 X 18mm auger bits
• 1 X piece of aluminum 40mm thickness
• 3 X heater cartidge
• 1 X thermocouple
• 1 X gear and belt
• wood material or dibond for hooking structure
• Ectronic system yet to develop

BOM

• 1 X brushed motor gear
• control board and comunication board between robot and extruder
• firmware software to control the extruder
• software to generate the robot path
• hooking structure of the extruder to the robot arm

Final project Gant

Under the advice of our Guru Enrico Bassi, I have developed the gant going to design the various parts of the project during the weekly exercises if possible.

in the following link is possible to consult the GANT plan. This was the first time that I have design a gant. I have made some research about and found this useful and easy to use google spreadsheet add-on.