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.
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".
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.
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