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-day Nov dd, 2013

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Sunday Nov 24, 2013

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Epic: upgrade Hal9000 to latest debian + reinstall fileserver, printerserver, timelapse webcam scripts, 3d printerserver

$ sha512sum debian-7.2.0-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso 692330e258abdaf7697ec5bac5a9d4cc7ed45dcbbc9ccf24d0f4eb0b6eb0222d89e793fceaf6c7a702d1742ecaf1c3f78ee70a1e68f8cdd147957b6be7b2e5fb debian-7.2.0-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso

Saturday Nov 23, 2013

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  • Took the day off to hang out with Mike and Scott!
  • Took out the recycling (photos + guide to follow).
  • 3D Printed some widgets for the Hablab: 2 x classic reprap coathooks (need to print 2 more!), a mason jar handle (need to print 5 more) and a toothbrush head cover for Mike.

Friday Nov 22, 2013

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7:30 am

9am meeting

  • Marcin asked DPVs: would you update facebook if you were invited. There was a general aye in response.
  • Marcin request for me to update my log

Feedback on meeting

  • beginning 15mins of morning meeting was productive: storytelling and task assignment.
  • Very little Interaction with remote participants, tech issues, mic problems, echo/feedback.
  • Meeting became less productive for Rob, Katie, Audrey and Sam when the discussion turned to prototyping the workshop stove which is out of scope for all of us except Mike, Scott and Marcin (signal/noise ratio decreased!).
  • There were no introductions made for Mike, and little to no onobarding took place, morning plan: he will be shadowing Marcin and Scott in the workshop to install the stove and then mabe looking at roads / surfacing.
  • Reminder: essential to upoload ~9:10am Friday 22nd November 2013 videos / stories to youtube and link from Logs! Source: Stories from this morning are on Marcin's Tablet and Sam's G3.
  • Key Takeaways:
  1. story telling good
  2. task assignment good
  3. need to stay focused on torch table, process efficiency and general team wellbeing
  4. bail on future meetings at the point when the signal to noise ratio goes down w.r.t. CnC Torch Table (reason: not in scope) i.e. a prototyping meeting style on a module / project I am not working on, this will prevent frustration and save about 50mins of peak concentration/working time / day.

10am to 1pm: Morning work session

  • Getting distracted by having to answer the telephone and the cat going nuts / running around.

1pm to 2pm

  • Lunch!

2pm to 5pm: Afternoon work session

5pm: Free time

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  • Printed out Chris_Reinhart_Log#Longwinded_Debrief_on_FeF_Procedures_after_November_Visit:_On-Boarding_Ideas.2C_Meeting_Titles.2C_and_the_Dinner_Bell to the notice board.
  • Personally Adopted Chris' Proposed Schedule to maximise personal productivity, thanks Chris!
  • Updated log from today, pending backlog to update log entries from 19th November to 21st November.
  • Created a backlog: upload as many stories as possible and link from personal logs.
  • Started Next task from Scrumy board: https://scrumy.com/samthetechie "Sketchup of Y Axis Drive"
  • Went on a scavenger hunt in the OSE workshop for electronics parts, brough box of stuff back to hablad in order to make a little nest / electronics desk/woskbench.
  • Created a list of electronics workshop items to be purchased from Adafruit and Amazon
  • Fixed Lulzbot 3D Printer: installed new PSU, took off old extruder due to failed resistive heating element and installed new one.

Thursday Nov 21, 2013

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  • Met Mike, our new DPV.
  • Full day of errands and shopping: car parts, tools, essentials, groceries
  • Had lunch with Mike and Scott at the Red Barn, later on we went for a beer in Cameron

Wednesday Nov 20, 2013

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  • Mike arrived in the evening.

Tuesday Nov 19, 2013

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Monday Nov 18, 2013

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Todo

Done

  • Physics I: Classical Mechanics (will play videos in hablab in background as a refresher because this is such an awesome course- the teacher is so charismatic :)

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Sunday Nov 17, 2013

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  • Sat in on morning standup / scrum. Mostly the discussion was about the Trencher because this was, in fact, a prototyping meeting and not a scrum meeting. Thanks to

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  • Handed scrum master role to Chris for the morning.
  • Suggested a new process intended to maintain internal narrative / story telling and also external narrative / storytelling: each member of the scrum to tell a story for 2mins, recorded on a smartphone and uploaded to youtube.
  • Started to make a technology check spreadsheet: to *actually* get a realistic staus check and then target + offer help to teammates that did not install / use the software/process listed here: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Onboarding
  • Went to hide and do background reading on CNC Torch Table ready to start working on it while the others went to the workshop
  • Katie arrived with the keyboard for the Mac Mini, I installed it ASAP so it is ready for the guys to use during next brainstorm or hangout in the hablab (priority because this was so frustrating yesterday, nobody could connect their laptop to the main screen and it wasted a *lot* of meeting time and energy- thanks again for the keyboard and mouse Katie!) :p
  • Setup mac mini, named skynet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQsG3TKQ0I
  • Found a load more cables and consolidated into the cable storage at the back of the fablab
  • Needed to print something for information but could not so I switched back to infrastructure
  • Plugged the 2D (normal) printer into hal9000 and enabled printer sharing, printer status: working
  • Plugged the Ultimakers into hal9000
  • Tested uploading a file to new OwnCloud file server on hal9000

Status on Checklist for DPV Orientation

Done

Backlog

Saturday Nov 16, 2013

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  • Setup kanban board in the hablab
  • facillitated a scrum at 9am as Scrum Master
  • Brainstormed with the guys about spool / cable feeding for the trencher
  • Did a walk around in the hablab to identify things to repair and get to know where things are
  • Did a walk around the site to get to know the site layout a bit better. Need a guided tour from user:Marcin, will request.
  • Had a look at the
  • Helped to pack away the new nuts, bolts and washers that were delivered
  • Took a ride into town with Katie to look at what was there and get a little bit of local information / orientation
  • Shadowed and helped Marcin in the workshop a bit, moving metal parts, finding tools, removing
  • Used the compressed air machine with pnematic parts to assist in cleaning dusty storage boxes.
  • Reorganised the bolts and nuts and washers by size, type and made it consistent between the shelves
  • Moved the rollable tool drawers back to their position in terms of the Workshop map.
  • Hacked the (forgotten) root pw of marcin's oldthinkpad / ubuntu and updated it to Ubuntu 10.0.4
  • Installed OwnCloud on hal9000
  • Setup botqueue.com account for our 3 3D printers
  • hostname: hal9000 (after Hal 9000 from ’2001: A Space Odyssey’)
  • video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MMmYyIZlC4

Friday Nov 15, 2013

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A *really* terrible selfie of me after a very long flight - Day 0 of my DPV!

Sat, Oct 19, 2013

Sun, Jun 16, 2013

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Sat, Jun 15, 2013

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Read Updates from:

Sat, Jun 1, 2013

  • Reviewing Wiki recent changes to get up to speed for this weekend's design sprint.
  • First Draft of the Hyrdaulic Cylinders:

File:Hydraulic Cylinder 2.5 inch bore 36 inch stroke.skp

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Sat, May 25, 2013

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Backhoe_Development_Brief

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Note in the discussion that the modelling is done with 1" x 1" by 2mm thick SHS (Square Hollow Section). It is quite likely that the modelling parameters can be altered to allow analysis of 4" x 4" by 1/2" thick SHS:

SHS.jpg

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  • Wrote a quick guide for Sketchup_on_Linux
  • Note: quick way to grab all the .skp files that have been uploaded onto the wiki.

Go to Special:ListFiles&limit=500&ilsearch=.skp and then using the down them all plugin for firefox and 'fast filtering' with /(.skp)$/ 

 "A second method for ensuring your edges are aligned to axes is to temporarily change the colors of your 
 edges to reflect their alignment to one of the axis. To change edge colors to reflect axes colors."

Tues, May 21, 2013

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To generate a CAM file for 3D printing, one must consider the 3" tubing and print out a 3" hole, not a 4.875" hole and ensure hole is correct for 3d printed files.

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Note: the above is used to generate a CAM file for 3D printing, one must consider the 3" tubing and print out a 3" hole

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Sat, May 18, 2013

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    • note 5/21/13 - then to 3" pivot hole for rapid prototyping / 3d printing rather than 4.875" as per explanation on Stock_Pivot_Plate
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