W01 - PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The assignments fot this week are:
Website - Learn how to use GIT
I kind of know a litte bit about HTML, so at first I was thinking in make my website on WordPress, and try to use it as my content management system. Then I realized that HTML changed a lot and now they use a lot of CSS styles and other features that i had no idea. So I decided to make it from scratch building everything by programing. It will be a good opportunitiy to practice programing skills as well.
So, in order to lear about CSS, I was advised to check some tutorials and I found this one w3schools.com/css/ which is very simple tutoriial to understand and to put your learning into practice.
To get easier to see the changes in my wepage while making it, I used the Brackets. It also facilitate a lot the work for a good indentation of the source code, close the tags and find errors. Brackets is very easy to use if you ever had a bit of experience programming.
The thing now is that I need to learn how to build the website IN the class archive. In the first class we heard about GIT, and from what I get, we must use it to everything works well. So that's was supposed to be my first challenge! BUT, Window 10 was not helping me and before that I had to learn how to solve this problem first:
This problem solved by uninstalling my antivirus, which was conflicting with some windows secure resources. So I coud start using GIT I jus followed the tutorial provided at the Fab Academy 2016 class archive here. The main resource here is to use the Git Bash wich you can download here. After that, just remind the mantra: PULL ADD COMMIT PUSH and everything should work well.
Project Proposal
At first I didn't know exactly what to make. I had some idea but none of them was original. I considered to make a quadcopter, a wi-fi alarm, a pcb milling machine, a led cube and a lot of other stuffs. Finally i was thinking in make something to transmitt information through light. Recently I've read about Li-fi technology, wich basically transmitt data through light pulses. So at first I thought in build something like this, but then I reminded a project of Marcelo Coelho that I saw in at the EmTech Conference in Brazil last year. Then finally i though in make something similar to that, but activated by a laser pointer, and instead of big pixels, make each box with a LED matrix, so the pixels could be smallers.
So basically my project idea consists in make a LED matrix that light it on when receive a Laser pointer in it correspondent light sensor. Each LED must have a sensor to it works. The big picture of that would be a screen board which you could write with light, and each LED would basicaly be a "pixel".
The possibilites that I see to this project is to make something which people can interact each other as in Marcelo's project. It will be also a nice opportunity to learn more about electronics, I would use the Laser cutter or CNC machines to build the box and make PCBs to the circuits.
By now the project draft doesn't seems very cool, but I think as I start to make it will seems much nice. I thnik to build it I will need a range of the learnings from FabAcademy, as Computer-aided design, electronics production and design, embedded programming, input and output devices