I started my fabacademy learning how to code a website using html. I used w3schools.com that I found very understandable here. Anyway I wanted to design a very clean interface with few and clear links to assignments and final project page. I added css and boostrap features to obtain some graphic improvements.
I than produced a calendar with all the assignements and started to think how to integrate as many exercises as possible in the final project. In the end for the Spore project I used all these: CAD design, lasercutting, molding and casting, 3D printing, electronic production, programming.
I started scheduling the activities and learned how to use gantt. I found it very usefull in coordinating the work of several people. But I don't think I will use it to schedule my activities for final project because it absorb a lot of time.
I than gave a first look at git platform. With the help of my collegues at Opendot I undestood how it works and how it saves all the step of developements of a project.
I found the git gui a nice interface to manage the material uploading because it connect automatically to the right repository, so is faster to complete the "pushing procedure". The main steps to upload some updates are:
git pull
git add .
git commit -m "message"
git push
Using Bracket I designed a clean and simple web page.
I than sterted thinking at the final project. The first idea is to produce a smart Eye i describe in the final project page. After this I decided to work on something different involving light that finally became the Spore lamp project.
Here is a simple sketch of the very first idea. I would like to produce a responsive object: a lamp that opens whenever touched.