Week One

Principles and practices, project management

Final project proposal

My final project idea is hand with skelital structure and muscularture basically a life like robotic hand, it has been on my mind tough I do not want to make one with wires and pullies I want to make somesort of muscle that would move the arm and fingers pulling on them like a actual muscle would
I've been thinking about hydrolics or pnumatics also muscle wire with a bladder that has muscle wire inserted into the bladder. I had not done much sketching those were mainly doodles i did not keep track of.
but i was researching things similar to my idea for a project like this link and Zhe Xu's and Emanuel Todorov's work link

Project management

Getting to know things before the start of the week I looked at Codeacademy and to understand how Git and HTML works. I had no prior expirence with any programming of any kind and looking at sources of websites just looked like greek to me but when I got my hands in to it it made sence and I got to understand the language though I still need to build up my vocabulary and put it to practice.
Some of my early work in Code academy HERE
I really find it quite exciting to see these worlds in the computer open up to me. Setting up git was easy in the beginning managed to clone and get connected up then but took a while since the ssd was not correct so that requierd some changes like adding git@git and : to make it work in as it was wrong in the config file onece that was done I was able to push.

I found Brackets useful with its preview option and its autocompleate option useful though the autofill can be annoying at times as it sometimes adds when I fix things and I end up with brackets of things I dont need. I also used Notepad++ as well for the setup of my page. Brackets had some trouble with my name because it it is encoded in utf-8 so i had to add < meta charset="utf-8" > to use Icelandic caracters so that i would not be spanish to the power of 3 which was amusing but not my name.

I will be adding more to my pages and once I get more skilled with html and css.



Thise pages are made and desgined by me and also with great assistance from my girlfriend from with out her help idd be quite lost in spelling misstakes or wrong tags with in this world programming.

For Image editiing i used image magic wich is a program that is run from the command prompt and it can be used to resize and change the fromat of multible images in one go. Using it is farely simple jsut select your directory then once in the directory where the images you are gona edit you enter the command mogrify -f resize 700x600 *.jpg wich allows you to change the size of the image for example. its also capable of cropping and other things. I like the word mogrify.




GIT

What is Git Git (/ɡɪt/) is a version control system that is used for software development and other version control tasks. As a distributed revision control system it is aimed at speed,
data integrity,[9] and support for distributed, non-linear workflows.
Git was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel, with other kernel developers contributing to its initial development. Wikipedia
Quite a usefull program once you get the hang of it and is good ti help keep up with the workflow.

The Holy MANTRA of GIT

git pull, git add, git commit, git push git pull to pull up from the repository and git add to add your stuff to it then git commit -m " your message here " to comit your changes thne it all gets pushed and if someone is psuhing while you are psuhing
you will encounter a strange and acent programming menue called Vi and you have to expell it by pressin :q! and it goes away thats to merge your stuff to the otherone thats was pushing.



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