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1. State of the art, project management and documentation

Fabricademy first week has started. Participating this educational program as one of a work of my company, I have to use my company PC with restriction of application to be installed. This was an additional hurdle for me since Fabricademy basically uses free software as its principle. Checking some necessary free software for Fabricademy, I found it takes one or two weeks for my company to give the allowance of installation to each free software and it would end up too late for me to catch up wit Fabricademy lectures. Then I decided to divide my Fabricademy challenge into two parts; one as the "process learning part", and one as "my company work related development part". For the process learning part, I purchased a new windows note PC and have started preparation for Fabricademy.

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Research & Ideation

As I wrote in my introduction, my motivation of joining Fabricademy is to develop locally manufacturable Kinetic Seat with functional fabric technology. I was impressed by Stephanie Johnson and Cristina Dezi as the functional fabric designing point of view, and very much inspired by Kae Nagano and Rico Kanthatham as the perspective of narrative.

The lecture Visual documentation presentation was giving me relevant style of picture sharing format. I would like to get used to this style quickly and affect into my daily company work as well.

Assignment

  • Build a documentation website describing yourself and your motivation for the textile-academy, including your previous work
  • Upload the documentation to your project page on class.textile-academy.org
  • Add references and research based on the topic of your interest
  • Learn how to upload images, videos, references and how to use markdown and gitlab
  • EXTRA POINT Customize your website and document how you did it
  • Create your personal webpage on Gitlab and add your portfolio, interests and project ideas at your landing page

Tools

Visual Studio Code

For editing Markdown code, "Visual Studio Code" helps a lot by adding several extensions such as "Code Spell Checker", "GilLens", "markdownlint". extension for Visual Studio Code

Greenshot

For making screen shot with controlled size, "GreenShot" works very well by setting the destination folder to save. It must be a strong tool for Fabricademy students to save all trial in PC.

XnConvert

For making pictures size controling such as "600 * 400 bpm" XnConvert must be the one you work with.

XnConvert pulldown for resizing XnConvert resizing picture XnConvert setting folder to store

SSH Key

inkscape

For making pictures or figure with explanation and drawing, "inkscape" is useful.

weekly assignment
Initial

I jsut have purchased a new PC for Fabricademy since it requires GPU which is not in my current PC, and made setting.

Downloared softwares as the beginning are; Git, greenshot, inkscape, XnConverter, HandBrake, and Blender

Check out the weekly assignment [here](http://fabricademy.fabcloud.io/handbook/assessment/criteria/#1-project-management-and-documentation) or login to your [NuEval](http://nueval.fabacademy.org) progress and evaluation page.
about your images..delete the tip!!

  1. Remember to credit/reference all your images to their authors. Open source helps us create change faster together, but we all deserve recognition for what we make, design, think, develop.

  2. remember to resize and optimize all your images. You will run out of space and the more data, the more servers, the more cooling systems and energy wasted :) make a choice at every image :)

This image is optimised in size with resolution 72 and passed through tinypng for final optimisation. Remove tips when you don't need them anymore!

get inspired!!!

Check out and research alumni pages to betetr understand how to document and get inspired

Add your fav alumni's pages as references

References & Inspiration

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."

  • Two images side-by-side

describe what you see in this image describe what you see in this image


  • Image reference

centered image with credits/reference
  • Download reference

Links to reference files, PDF, booklets,

about your images..delete the tip!!

  1. Remember to credit/reference all your images to their authors. Open source helps us create change faster together, but we all deserve recognition for what we make, design, think, develop.

  2. remember to resize and optimize all your images. You will run out of space and the more data, the more servers, the more cooling systems and energy wasted :) make a choice at every image :)

This image is optimised in size with resolution 72 and passed through tinypng for final optimisation. Remove tips when you don't need them anymore!

Documentation workflow

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."

describe what you see in this image

Step 1

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."

Step 2

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."

Step 3

...

Videos

learn how to add video tutorials, inspirational videos and movies etc

From Vimeo

Sound Waves from George Gally (Radarboy) on Vimeo.

From Youtube