Selecting and Planning for Final Project, From my three ideas on my final project, I decided to go for the last one,Growth Dashboard.
The growth dashboard should visualize personal growth by tracking your every steps to your goal(s). :Like I want to meditate, exercise, study daily.
I pitched my idea to our instructor Marcel and we are planning and discussing how to convert my
idea into a real project.
I am also gathering ideas and drawing out images on what kind of visualization is possible
whilst searching for what is out there already.
I want to integrate gear mechanism into my application because I simply get attracted to the
complexity and visual satisfaction- simply put, it seems just cool.
But I have no idea yet how to design complex gear mechanisms.
These days, I spend most of my spare time searching for youtube videos on gear mechanisms.
Most probable idea is to put whatsoever gear mechanism inside the shape of the tree, to give a
boundary to a system. It can also be an analogy of the 'personal growth', as it intends to aid :D
The growth tree made from MDF. gears can be laser cut from MDF or some other materials. Some electronics need to be made to run the gear system inside the tree.
Around 50 EUR, See BOM in my final project documentation
As it seems my project does not require special process or materials,
I think I could easily get things what I need for the project from fablab itself.
IF there are something we are in need, Fab Lab Aachen orders most of their stuff from the
following german vendors:
How to operate a stepper motor yet
Designing a gear system
The schedule is demanded by a large taunting deadline and needs to be agile to react to sudden problems.