Jen Log
1 May 2018
Started 8A filling out application.
8:38A, have a vid recorder on Chromebook ready to go.
9:30A, have vid uploaded, cover letter submitted.
1 hour 20 minutes.
Downloading the Linux-
11:30, requested Wiki account. Michael upgraded the recaptcha. Hadn't been working, hadn't allowed me to submit an account request. Welcome to my Pauli effect.
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Noon first dev meeting I was able to attend in full. Followed Lex's instructions, and when I had questions I went back over the instructions and found my answers. Lex taught me well.
2 May 2018
Keeping in mind that I am not coming from a developer background, please...
So I was SO excited about "downloading" the Linux software to my USB... But it tuns out it needs to be burned to the USB.
So I won't include all the excited feelings I had in my written journal.
Because 5 May 2018
12:30P I'm looking at the Linux on the thumb drive. Since I am not familiar with Linux and still a bit of a Luddite, at least in ability, I am reading a good amount about this on the Wiki pp. So far every question has been answered by reading and rereading the generally excellent instructions.
See how I still think I did part 3?
Ish.
I'd thought, following the prompts on the Linux download page, that I had downloaded the OSELinux to my google drive, then burned it to the thumb drive. But I'm not finding it in my google drive. It had downloaded to my Windows.
"Plug in USB, reboot into BIOS, and then select USB as the boot device."
THIS is where I discover I did not burn the OSELinux to my USB.
IT MAY BE IN THE INSTRUCTIONS AND I MAY HAVE MISSED IT.
My son sent me this link: https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-windows?_ga=2.252848266.2041634624.1525554540-2068399448.1525554540#
I followed the instructions here and got the OSELinux burned to my thumb drive.
15 May 2018
Correspondence with Ruslan re: finding standard pipe fittings dimensions.
http://epubs.iapmo.org/2018/UPC/mobile/index.html The Uniform Plumbing Code/ US/ 2018 may be helpful to someone.
(Log to date has been analog/paper copy. Will insert later.)
Reading dev logs, adapting to the process, reframing understanding.
I just realized that other people are having the same questions. NOW I'm having some fun.
~ 6:30 am to 10:30 am, research and perusing logs. noon to 2 pm/ meeting notes. So six hours.
16 May 2018
About 1:30 to 2 am moved notes from meeting around ("archived").
18 May 2018
Called a plumber suggested by a friend- said the question was too big, to call a plumbing supply. I'm not sure the plumbing supply co's possible motivation/didn't call/ "Hey, tell me what you sell most of so we can put you out of business"? Found the local plumbers' union and sent them an email requesting the info.
22 May 2018
Working too much. First chance I've had to really sit down with the FreeCAD again. Part of my trepidation is that the devs on the project seem to be using other CAD softwares then transferring to FreeCAD, which makes me think there's a sharp learning curve. Also, the comments that it's like a beta.
OTH, the flexibility and the open-source are important.
NOW it finally sinks in that the fact that I haven't done any development is actually helpful because there are Very Fresh eyes on the situation.
I'm very frustrated that so many things have come up the past few weeks and I've had unexpected encroachments on my time.
So this morning before the meeting I am going through FreeCAD tutorials on YouTube. What I ran into last week was the following-
I found the parts library and I (thought I had) downloaded it. I couldn't figure out how to import the part to the FreeCAD. Then I noticed that the parts have a FreeCAD version, so I opened that. When I tried to add the x-y axis to the part 4 huge tubes appeared intersecting at the axis.
It seems I remember this happening when Marcin did something on FreeCAD in the last meeting? But he was starting at a point well beyond where I'm at. At this point I'm just trying to get the part where I can work with it.
I'm starting here today:
https://youtu.be/_HEvhclR4-o (Copied "embed" link from YouTube. Did not magically embed. NOT getting sidetracked.)
The "file edit view tools macro windows help" prompt line is not in the same place on my version as in the vid, which had me stymied for several minutes. I even closed and reloaded the FreeCAD, as it was already up when I had started the vid.
I accidentally discovered that the "file edit view tools macro windows help" prompt line appears when I move the cursor above what appears to be the window in which the FreeCAD program is contained. (Newbie issues, right?)
10 minutes into vid- talking about scroll wheel properties. When I press and hold my scroll wheel I do not get the rotational properties, but strictly movement on the plane with no rotation. I had noticed earlier in the vid that I was not set on the same navigation style, so I am backtracking and resetting to see if that makes a difference. AND it does. So if I want to be able to rotate my object with the scroll button on the mouse I need to be in blender navigation not CAD navigation. To adjust navigation I need to go to preferences, under edit, and click on the the view icon. Then my navigation options will appear.
3 hours roughly. Feeling much much better about it. When I have devices set up side by side so that I can follow along with the video actually doing what the instructor is doing as he is doing it, things go much more smoothly and the processes make sense- like when I'd made a note that my navigation choice was different than the instructor's. I am almost over my fear of changing settings.
I am not sure how to log time spent?
Perusing OSE Wiki.
1 hour/OSE dev meeting.
3P looking at How to build a proper BOM.
23 May 2018
11P/Moving meeting notes around. Still not sure how to move the old meetings to archive. I'll see if can't figure that out in the next hour.
So... I don't understand why the current meeting embed on the log page is formatted like the edit page and not like a slide show. Diving in to figure that out.
Hopefully.
Yay... So there was a stray bit of "edit?usp=sharing" in the first bit where it was coding to embed. It made the embed format like the slide page layout instead of like the first slide. It's fixed now. Woot woot.
Thank-you Lex for your amazing instructions on how to do the notes pages.
I'm not sure what all to skin from the previous meeting when I'm setting up the current meeting.
And with about a half hour in tonight I'm going to bed/up for work 4:30A. Should have time for the BOM tomorrow afternoon.
Oh- I forgot to mention that Ruslan's words of encouragement regarding the FreeCAD, that it is not intuitive and that the best thing is to find a good tutorial and follow along, really helped. Thank-you Ruslan.