Project development

Week 19

Complete my final project and documenting my progress

Regarding that part of this final week assignment, you can go on the final project pages to follow the evolution of that project:

  • Concept: I awswer there some basic question about the project as : What will it does ! There's also information on inspiration, skectches and models.
  • Notes: The notes section is more about materiel needed, bill of materials, technics, and processes, planning, etc.
  • Process: This one is the official documentation page.

Answer some specific questions

What is the deadline? How much time do I have left? The deadline is pretty clear! I'll present to the regional team next Wednesday, June 14th 2017, and for the global presentation, it'll be Friday, june 16th 2017. I guess this is my deadlines. I think that it is reasonable to think that it'll be completely done on Thursday, June 15th 2017.

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What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain? At this point, a lot of conceptual tasks are done and some pre-phase tasks are to.

  • Research on the specific art fields that I wanted to explore.
  • Research on shapes and paterns;
  • First sketch;
  • First small prototype;
  • Input circuit tests and code;
  • Output circuit tests and code;
  • Material aquisition;
  • Presentation slide's template;
  • Video template;
  • Lists of remaining tasks.

    • What remains ? Well, the tasks presented above with their deadline.

    How will I complete the remaining tasks in time? At this point, I'd say by working days and nights? Jokes aside, I'd say by keeping up with the deadlines and schedule that I imposed myself. I guess I'll trust Neil's method when he says that one of the best ways to achieve a good and well-finished project is by respecting the deadline that we planned. I'll do that!

    What has worked? All the completed tasks have worked well so far.

    What hasn't? The main task that is definitely challenging is to make the circuits. They both worked separately when I worked on them in the output and input week. But, now my now design, that integrates all of them seems to be more challenging. The thing with that is that it takes a lot a time to mill PCBs so you can loose a day of work very easily with those types of tasks. The other thing was to find a way to make the pantograph hit the white left part. From that, I'll need to 3D model and print a custom piece. This is where I am with the challenges. Thes rest goes pretty well.

    What questions still need to be resolved? As I said, I still need to work on the way the panthoprah will hit the white parts on the left to make it turn.

    What have you learned? A lot! Just the technicals things I learned is crazy! I've never coded before or make circuits. I also learned that I worked better under pressure. I've done more this week than I did for a lot of time.