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28 Nov 2018

Roughly an hour admin, cleaning up dev log page, making sure recent past months are updated.
I'm otw a free JavaScript 101 at Galvanize Seattle.
Also, I'm learning to integrate third party API's?
Is that the thing?
Still not clear.
Something about apps for my friend's trucking company.
I'll figure it out, no doubt.
Looking forward to it.

One love.

27 Nov 2018

Two hours admin, meeting.

26 Nov 2018

About an hour looking at various hackathon and dev group project requirements.

17 Nov 2018

So I'm sitting at a Hackathon at Code Fellows in Seattle.
It occurs to me that Open Source Ecology should be presenting our projects at Hackathons.
I won't derp myself, this being my first Hackathon.


I'm about done doing school.
That was a non-sequitor.

14 Nov 2018

Got so busy thinking about yesterday I almost forgot to enter today.

Admin admin, which I actually enjoy.
Had some fun making the November page.
It's always so magical to me, that the brackets and asterisk make a link
to a page
that doesn't exist
until I use the link
and go to the page
and type something.


Such a commentary on the world.

Shared the TedTalk with someone at work.

13 Nov 2018

Meeting, internet research regarding ways homeschool programs can get funding for OSE builds.
It looks like not very many states provide much funding for homeschool parents
but there are apparently other people providing grants for various things.
Which I know is ridiculously vague.
I'm at the beginning of my research,
and I must say I'm disappointed in what I am finding.
Alaska was a blessed place to raise smalls.


We need some assets to share around the homeschooler hangouts.
We need some meme-sters.


Oh! I almost forgot-
I've been sharing that downloaded TedTalk.
Eventually something will stick.

-)

12 Nov 2018

Minor admin.


17 Oct 2018

My documentation is horribly spotty. I apologize. It's me not realizing that I'm actually doing "work". Today I downloaded the Ted Talk, which isn't much, but now I'll have it to play for people even when wifi isn't available. Yeah, Seattle. You'd think... But no.

Maybe I can encourage friends to embed?

Hmmmmmmm.

I'll look for other super-short vids to download. We need lots and lots of soundbites- well, a few really good ones.

16 Oct 2018

Attended the meeting. I forget how much preparation I do for meetings sometimes though. Like for this meeting I went back and watched the dev meetings I'd missed, and I listened to the talks. That's a few hours.

But then again, my head wheels are always spinning, so once they're on task I'm on OSE 24/7. I'm finding ways to get OSE into my daily conversation as well.

People ask what I do, meaning "for a living". What I do for living IS OSE.


6 October 2018

In the computer lab at North, learning more about Linux, talking up OSE, as always.

4 October 2018

Happy Birthday to me. Learning how to config Linux installs.


2 October 2018

It appears that I am amongst friends here at North Seattle College. I spent several hours in the computer lab yesterday geeking out over open source, getting Linux hints, and promoting the post-scarcity revolution in general. I told Adrien, the lab assistant, about the open invitation to the OSE dev team, and he turned me on to some great free coding resources online.

So far so good.

23 September 2018

Went through step by step setting permissions on Slides. Documented on the dev team notes meeting protocol page now- https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Dev_Team_Meeting_Notes_Protocol

I had been going to burn the updated OSE software to my USBs. Then I remembered I'll have access to computer labs now that I've started school, and I'm thinking that will be faster and easier, since Houghie is a BRICK and a tad slow in his old age.

22 September 2018

Reset permissions on Slides documents that had permissions incorrectly set. FINALLY figured out the pathway to set to "Anyone on the web can edit".

Reviewed FreeCAD, problems with shutting down. Recovered work, but then it was glitchy.

Looking at whether I can update FreeCAD on my Linux sticks or do I need to reburn the whole thing? Going with reburn the whole thing.

20 September 2028

I've been doing a lot of SEO, which I didn't realize counts as dev, so here it goes. Set the OSE workshop coming up this Wednesday in my Hootsuite hopper. Sharing on Twitter and especially LinkedIn. Facebook no longer allows Hootsuite posts.

18 September 2018

Dev team meeting. Admin, notes.

4 September 2018

Something is super-funky with the developer hours graph. It's all going into the same week, not this week.

And apparently I have not been consistently documenting again. Sigh.

Or I'm distracted and walking away and not saving, which is still not consistently documenting.

I have NO IDEA how to document when I talk to people about OSE, or listen to the TedTalks over and over trying to get a great three sentence synopsis of what we do (no I don't have one- it seems to be getting there though- marketing is hard).

There's finally enough FreeCAD in my head for Marcin's tutorial to make sense, but it took me a few hours to get through half (two minutes). I was having too much fun trying different permutations and jumping lines around, closing sketches then re-opening and editing, and not too much fun figuring out how to get VokoScreen to save what I was recording.

So I've done the basic admin for the meeting, not studied Py directly this week but I've enrolled in a Py class at the local college and start in a few weeks, been having fun on FreeCAD, mainly Sketcher, especially padding and pocketing shapes and changing constraints, jiggied about at super-baby level with VokoScreen and Kdenlive, refreshing my memory,

And told everyone who would listen that plastic water-bottles are invaluable raw resource and that we can take control of manufacturing WITHOUT the Marxist revolution.

We ARE the means of production. We don't HAVE to seize it.

19 August 2018

Listened to the dev meeting from 14 August. I'm not a fan of storing on GitHub now that MS has bought it. Spent potential code study time lf fresh gainful employment. Grrr. It's a Zeno thing, with the moving target and constantly getting almost there.

Figuring out where to put my other questions and wondering about going to Enumclaw.

18 August 2018

Should be upticking my main device today or Monday. That will be a huge relief. It will give me a chance to install the various tools again as well as more space to mess around with different versions of things (there it went, lol). I'm at the point I'm not sure there's room for a printer program on The Brick.

More importantly, my action plan to wage slave significantly less and increase cash flow in seems to be on track and flowing.

\0/ \o/\O/


So I'm watching a vid in Gordon White's Sigils course. (Will insert speaker's name later)(Talking about Runa culture/Amazon)


This is the quote:

"Ecology is Mind".

Even when I'm not working on OSE I'm working on OSE. I don't know how to reflect the coreness of it all.

Got at least one social, active homeschooler looking at the 3D printer workshop. Have some new peeps and ideas in mind. Now I need the time to follow through and implement. Grrr.

Ecology is Mind

Now it's November 2018 and I don't remember where I was going with this.
Given an external mind, which I'm not sure I care to argue,
it would seem ecology is mind by default.


I think it goes a little deeper than that.

If our ecology is the environment in which we live, or more specifically, how we maintain that environment, especially in balance, then Ecology is Mind recognizes that interaction between our minds and the world around us.

I posit that this is a very direct relationship between our biology and the biology of the world around us. I certainly don't believe that this is the only interaction that our minds have with the natural world, but this is certainly happening.


IF and they can read the data being transmitted through a device by the changes in the electricity going through the wall socket- IF and they can take pictures of your dreams and form words and move limbs from your thoughts- IF and they can store data in DNA-

Then WE are the singularity.

We need to transcend the "need" for hardware and learn to interface with our reality directly.

Or it could mean the environment is a mind.

Hmmm.

That's another singularity.

17 August 2018

Barely time to even think/mundania. I tell at least three people a day about OSE.



16 August 2018

It is SO wonderful to have so much time off lately to splash about in the OSE postings as well as to cram the Python.

I still don't have the averaging in on the grading program. I can get it to average all of the numerical scores, but once it does that it doesn't sort out the scores that are over 1 any more. Actually, I got it to not average the sores over 1 but then it didn't give the error message... I must have been in a really negative mood to not feel triumphant about all the Py I made myself remember and futzed with instead of looking up and how much I'm figuring out on my own.

The grammar and diction is finally making grokky sense in flashes.

Lex set me up with PyCharm, and it is just amazingly helpful. I copy the same program into a few different windows (terminology) and mess with it that way.




14 August 2018

HUGE week. I stewed the Py grading program in my head many waking hours. (Standard beginner "if elif elif" bit.) There are dopey little things I take time to remember (rather than looking up each tiny thing). This time it was remembering how to define a particular kind of variable.

I got all of the error messages in the right places, a different one for numbers out of range than for letter entries, and the break in the right place, so the program stops when I type 'done'.

AND I enrolled in a Linux Systems Network and Security certification course at the local college. It's only two quarters. This should lead to a job that pays about twice what I am making now and allows me more head space for the revolution.

I'm also having some success hunting down old homeschooling friends to work microfactory idea from that angle.


Got the Home Depot fittings logged on a spreadsheet. Haven't looked at adding pics or at getting additional measurements. Not sure exactly what I'm doing with it yet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n40B6WPaYf_O0Mvn2yZqsqE2vwWIC8vWbEFnoLVBvd0/edit?usp=sharing


5 August 2018

Loving the Python book I'm working. So happy for the Lex-ercises and Codecademy I've already done, but this guy woke my muse.

I'll fill in the chart, thank-you Marcin, during the hot part of the day.

Right now it's back into the book. (And yes I'm running the exercises as I'm doing them. I am shocked at the amount of punctuation I drop.

Shocked.)


4 August 2018

I really need to work on my documentation. It feels like since it isn't actual programming for OSE I'm not doing anything, but I am.

Most of what I'm doing is learning right now. I severely truncated my work schedule and have been using half of that time to devote to OSE.

I talk about OSE to anyone who will listen... and some who won't.

I didn't doc walking to Home Depot and getting parts sizes for Ruslan. Home Depot will be seeing a lot of me now that I've found one in walking distance.

It's just really super frustrating to have so very much going on. It's abundantly clear to me now how the wage-debt slavery system traps people. I've decided to give up on staying ahead of bills for the next month anyway and focus on OSE and learning Python.

One Love.

Studied Python/UMich course/4 hours

And another 6 hours. Hunh.

Going to Demolition Man tonight.

The book can be had for free but I kicked down the 99 cents for the Kindle edition. Life will just be easier this way.

It's "Python for Everybody: Exploring Data in Python 3". I'm 12% through it so far today. My command window on my brick is in a version of 2, I don't remember why, but I remember the important difs and work around that.

The author is the instructor for the Coursera Python specialty I'm jamming. It's out of U of Michigan, by Charles Severance, who is very pro open-source.


See where this is going?


Coursera has been good to me.

29 July 2018

Th, Fr, and Today I had time to start messing with FreeCAD again and to test what I remember of the kdenlive. https://youtu.be/k5aYMMrYIyo

So far so good. Still not figuring how or even if possible to duplicate and manipulate padded pieces.

If I keep at it eventually it will all make sense. I'm still trying to FreeCAD my printer frame design idea.

I've been on the Open Source Ubuntu at least three hours this evening. Now that I have some days off they blur too.

I don't have enough device power to download much more. Planning

24 July 2018

My documentation is horrific. 21, 22, and 23 July I spent a total of at least 16 hours studying Agile, listening to interviews of Marcin, and looking at dev logs.

I've been trying to get a grok of the full scope of the project whilst working 50 plus hours a week in a Faustian fugue.

I'm still not clear where we are physically with what's actually happenedin building builds.


28 June 2018

Trying to get circular constraints to work again. takacsjd (takacslog) - Right, they are totally unpredictable. I don't know how you designate which is the master for a part move.

Vokoscreen isn't recording audio? Did I miss a permission on my new USB? No... It was recording audio before.

Smh. No clue.

The next USB is working. I used an older version of Rufus to burn it. Maybe that helped. takacsjd (takacslog) - VirtualBOX VM's are anouther way to run OSE linux across computers... although not as portable.

Working on getting rid of this thing when I'm done with it:

Oh. Now the "finish editing" button worked and did not close FreeCAD.

Now the circular constraints are working consistently but I can no longer get the planes to line up using that constraint.

Working off this forum right now, going through my trouble spots and finding the hiccups.


https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=15880

27 June 2018

Still wrangling the finding my vids on Ubuntu thing. After watching useless vids on inserting music I finally discovered, on my own, the overwrite tool on Kdenlive. Now I can't find my 15 seconds of pain points to splice onto this, but GOOOOAAAAALLLLL anyway.

Also, it wasn't until I started with making vids that I discovered the volume on my computer nearly is all the way down. I don't want to mess with the USB in the middle of FINALLY getting the test all spliced together (going back to wage-slavery tomorrow afternoon, who knows when it will end). Couldn't find where to adjust computer volume quickly enough to suit myself, so I've been uploading everything to YouTube to volume test. For me right now that is the simple solution. Don't laugh, lol. Former goat farmer.


How I feel:

What I did:

Test-In your Work Log - document: How many hours each part of the test took to complete: 1) Installing Linux; 2) Learning FreeCAD; and 3) Documenting your work--and which section was most difficult.

At first I downloaded the Linux to my USB. That obviously didn't work. I phoned a friend and got turned onto Rufus: See 2 May 2018

The actual process takes maybe 10 minutes. I spent about eight hours figuring it out and getting good help.

FreeCAD was about 6 weeks. I don't have free time, really, and I needed three hour chunks to get anywhere, not that progress was ever guaranteed. Documenting has a much nicer learning curve for me, but I think that's because I already have a YouTube channel and some minimal experience with vid editing.

FreeCAD was the hardest. Each thing is a trial- until it's not.

Remembering to document on the wiki is the most difficult for me, but I can do it from any device- at least there's that.


Add any other feedback you have on the FreeCAD Test or the Developer Test in general. Score yourself 0-100 based on the percentage of the Test points that you have completed successfully - and include that score in your work log comments.


I give myself about - well- 100% on the test itself.

27 June 2018

The Rufus still works (refer to 2 May 2018 or so). I was able to overwrite my "faulty" USB, I think. Working off a different one right now. Waiting for my original cube to "render" on Kdenlive. Already rendered the 30 second version. Been on this two hours so far today, between burning the USBs and redoing the cube test. The circular constraints are still grumping about the math. Ah well. I'll have to ask - I think Abe was discussing that with me. I just don't get why they worked and worked and now they don't. Maybe I'm highlighting backwards? Oh, or maybe just one piece to one piece? That doesn't make sense. They're positionally fixed and somehow when I first was using them the pieces weren't? No. THAT doesn't make sense. The circular constraints are ON the Assembly workbench, so obviously that's where they're meant to be used. Hmmmmmmmm.

So much to think about and learn. At least I grok enough now to be able to benefit from shorter periods of study. Until the last couple of weeks, if I didn't have at least three hours I wasn't going to get anything new worked out or accomplished. And I almost never had three hours. Slow at work right now, so I've had a few days. This would definitely be less fun broken up into bits, but I could easily have set up and walked away from burns and renders. If I didn't have a bit of money to buy extra USBs and a few days off I might not be entertained but rather frustrated.

I rendered the full length cube build, but now I cannot find it? I found the 30 second one anyway. Dang. I thought I was doing things exactly the same each time.

Uggg. I have the music clip in my Kdenlive, but it's not recording when I render the project. It seems like all the tech support these days is in vids, too. Why learn to read and write?

26 June 2018

No.

Really.

Now my Part Design workbench isn't working. Seriously. I tried to video what it's doing, but vokoscreen isn't saving my vids.

So I'm going to reinstall Ubuntu on my USB.

Really.

It's me not me.

Now to find out if my Ubuntu to USB log is helpful.

26 June 2018

Had fun with fasteners on the fastener workbench and circular constraints on Assembly 2- until FreeCAD quit doing the math for the constraints-

The cube build is down to an art- until I try to record it of course- so the test cube is constructed mundanely and a bit ham-fisted. I had so many elegant solutions in mind.

Why I'm here though is to kvetch briefly about the kdenlive. I'm not finding vids I've saved through kdenlive, but I can go to the vid on my desktop and open it in kdenlive.

I worked on fasteners, circular constraints, and recording the build at least a few hours yesterday, and today a few hours recording and editing, uploading, et c.

As soon as the test is in I'm updating all of this software.

Just saying.

And I have well over 15 seconds of commentary on pain points, so maybe I'll just smile and say "God bless".

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Development_Spreadsheet_Template#Instructions

22 June 2018

I had a great time in Eugene. Dallin, the 3D Printer build participant, was really into it and completely unflappable. It was a beautiful thing.

I managed to capture a fair bit. The video is pretty intermittent. My phone kept getting full, so I had to pause to upload to YouTube so I could delete vids and have room to take more. Not that I am a videographer.

Here's the list, fwiw. Feel free to copy, edit, and use.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsLqRCoY7a_kDAamsgYgf2JohW_lWcKZG

So on the REALLY exciting side I have an easy fix for the 3D printer frame needing jimmied around to get a pseudo-fit.

In order to get the fit smooth, which is literally impossible with five matching squares, AND keep each piece the same, we need to add the thickness of the steel plate at a pair of opposite ends on each plate. Then we can fit the long edge of either side to the long edges of the bottom. Then back and front pieces' long edges will fit over the edges of the sides and bottom nicely.

This may require the extra step of labeling each piece. Hopefully there's enough room on the axis parts to make that extra bit of stretch.

And no, I had no FreeCAD time, but I did pack The Brick and Chromie to Eugene. The Chromebook was handy and I did get a bit done on it, mostly YouTube related.

Oh, lol.

I just spent how many not yet logged OSE hours?

I may just do a wiki page on how to assist Marcin at events.

He seems to enjoy meat-based fresh foods in pastries of one kind or another and prefers blonde cookies (white chocolate macadamia nut) and "chocolates" to actual chocolate cookies and chocolate.

Also, he is not a fan of ice water. Moderately temperatured water is better.

Keep feeding him.

He's probably deeply engaged in conversation, won't go get something to eat after, and may not have eaten before the event.

Keep feeding him.

Also, people stop him to talk to him, so if he has somewhere he needs to be go through the buffet line and meet him with a plate wherever he's headed.

19 June 2018

My logging is not so good. So last night I figured out how to import files and succeeded at doing it.

I spent easily four hours between tutorials, sites, et c wrangling FreeCAD, not that I could find a tutorial on what I actually needed.

Finally I decided to try what I had been doing- downloading the tubing library and using the Assembly 2 workbench. Mostly I couldn't find the file anywhere through FreeCAD, but it was on "my computer", the bit on my Ubuntu-loaded USB stick.

Grrr.

But it SAYS import parts on the Assembly 2 workbench. So what's up?

Thinking thinking thinking- I SAVED the download to a file and THEN I could find it and import the 8-hole tubing.

ERMAGAWD.

That easy, and it's really not the sort of thing a developer is going to think to ask me because it's so basic and so obvious. I'm pretty sure that was it. I can't tell from Lex's response when I asked if that was it whether he was being a little sarcastic when he said "Maybe". I think yes. Anyway, that's what I had done differently.

I had found a workaround by simply using the tubing file and duplicating the tubing and moving it around, but that wasn't going to work for the bolt!

So today I won't have much time. I have to pack to go to Eugene tomorrow to (hopefully) assist with the 3D Printer build there. So amazing. This stuff is so cool.

I'm still debating whether I want to pack my ungainly brick of a laptop with me. Will I REALLY have time to work on this there? Really?

18 June 2018

My projects don't seem to be saving onto my USB. Not sure what I'm not doing. I'd saved several things on FreeCAD, projects from tutorials and such, and now nothing is in the files. Grrrr.

Also, when I talk to people about help with FreeCAD they tell me "Nobody uses FreeCAD. Try..." Or more politely, they share what they use and talk about why they like that software.

Be that as it may, I agreed to learn FreeCAD.

The problem is that I don't know ANY CAD maybe? A friend may hook me up with AutoCAD if I ask nicely. Maybe I should be using that?

ANyway.

Back into it today. Thinking about downloading the FreeCAD directly onto my computer. Idk.

Fml sometimes.


17 June 2018

Interesting...

Getting Linux onto the Chromebook, even using the USB, was a washout. I'd thought I had logged that. Been messing in FreeCAD a bit. I still run into issues with sketching not appearing on the surface when I go to draw on various faces.

I spent at least six hours today watching vids, especially on 3D printer builds and general principles of OSE.


14 June 2018

It looks like I may be able to get Linux onto my Chromebook?

Super-stoked to try, and I have tonight off. Will report.

If I can then I'll be able to work on the bus. My laptop, a medieval brick, is far too cumbersome to deal with on the fly.

13 June 2018

About 10 minutes doing dev log page admin then listened to the meeting on YouTube, so about an hour.

10 June 2018

Still working on figuring out how to get multiple hunks of tubing onto FreeCAD. It's interesting to say the least. Each version is just different enough, right?

Getting acquainted with GitHub in the meantime.

Success. I've been duplicating and manipulating the 8 hole tubing in the FreeCAD. It's all such a mystery, until it's not.

9 June 2018

Hmmm. Slacking on logging apparently.

So now I am trying to figure out how to add/access parts on FreeCAD. I found a few videos on importing parts. Some even started in English. But soon they were in German. Sigh.

I also found the FreeCAD 101 manual on the FreeCAD 101 page. https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing In attempting to follow these instructions the hang-up was this: Place the downloaded macro in your FreeCAD Macros folder. The FreeCAD Macros folder location is indicated in menu Macros -> Macros -> User macros location.

I found the location, but the addons macro wasn't there and there wasn't any way I could see to put it anywhere. It's in my Ubuntu download folder - or appears to be- not sure how to get it onto FreeCAD- but I need something like this to add the libraries?

Anyway. More adventures.


6 June 2018

So the YouTube embed for 5 June on the dev log page looks different than the others do. I have no idea what I did differently- I'm thinking nothing- nor how to fix it. Last night I did do the FreeCAD tutorial I was stuck on again. This time I clicked auto refine under I want to say the edit button/preferences/part design. After that all of my drawings appeared on the surfaces throughout the design, which made working much easier. Another hour and a half last night. It looks like constraints may vary somehow FreeCAD version to version.

THANK-YOU MARCIN for saying we'll stick with this FreeCAD version until it no longer serves our purpose. I certainly hope people will benefit from what I do document about learning it. Now I know why everybody in analog world looked at me funny when I said I was going to learn it on my own. But I am. :-D

5 June 2018

What I ran into last time with this tutorial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRFsW_FhyP4&index=4&list=PL6fZ68Cq3L8k0JhxnIVjZQN26cn9idJrj, was that after having successfully inserted I think three through pockets, when I entered the sketch mode to do a pocket on the next surface the axes nor the circle I drew showed on the surface. That makes it hard for me to work, when I cannot see what I am drawing. I was unable to find a way to refine the lines out of the item on which I was working. I had initially selected to not do it automatically because my computer is a bit long in the tooth.

When I do the tutorial again I'll just select automatic for now, though I am thinking I know the solution, now that it's gelled in my head a day. It's funny the details I'm remembering after-the-fact. Probably a good sign I remember them at all. I think I was looking in the wrong place for the manual refine. I think. Nuts, I'm not even positive it's called refining.

- Yes it is called refining. Yes I was looking in the wrong place. Yes setting preferences to autorefine did solve the problem.

And I am very sorry I'm not more accurate on recording my time. I need a one-man chess clock. BOOM- working on OSE. BOOM not. Lol. At this point I'm counting learning FreeCAD as OSE work. I really do only have about a dozen hours a week for this right now.

4 June 2018

Moved dev meeting YouTube to dev log page quickly on break at work. Will look at migrating older meetings hopefully this afternoon.

Migrating the meetings is super easy. You create the page to put them on by searching for it then creating the page.

To create an internal link you just put the page name between two brackets marked by an asterisk.

  • [ [ page name ] ], but with no spaces

3 June 2018

FreeCAD tutorial, two hours. Ran into the problem again where the axes don't show on the surface on which I'm sketching, so also the drawings do not show on that surface. Will start from scratch again tomorrow.

"Talked" with Lex about moving the older meetings onto the list at the bottom of the page. He said to create a web page, name it the date, migrate the code, then link.

Derp. Starting to get the groove of this though. Moving out of hausfrau/goat farmer mindframe.

2 June 2018

Worked on FreeCAD tutorial.


1 June 2018

Archiving meeting on my Samsung on break at work. YouTube doesn't seem to have a special embed code on this device?

Got the slides moved anyway.

29 May 2018

I keep getting an error message when I attempt to access my log on my Chromebook.

The whiffle went well up to the last step, in which my second set of cuts left square bits. Hmmmm. I think I forgot to set "parallel to plane". I set up three cut out boxes to start, though, so I'm into the second one now.

When I hit "undo" on the first one the whole project disappeared. I've seen the disappearing project before on my undo's. Back in...

Uggg. Redrawing the triangles for the second set of corner cuts.

Irritating. Error message that 100mm is an invalid length for the line. What does that even mean? Undo undo etc, trying again. Plus I'm doing the log on my Samsung because my Chromebook and my log page refuse to cooperate.

Ohhhhhhh... one of my triangle lines does not have the vertical line marker- so it isn't vertical anymore? I think that was an undo result.

Into my third precut. Actually, since I closed without saving I'm still on the second precut. This is definitely an adventure.

Woot woot! Finally got it.

Nearly 2 hours. There are all the little details to remember, and yes, the problem had been the symmetric to plane bit for the pads on the second set of cuts. This keeps getting easier and going faster each time, though. Just be methodical and detail oriented.

The whiffle was starting to get intuitive, especially regarding the switching between the parts and the parts design workbenches, plus I'm remembering to set incremental controls each time and the axes and directions are more fluid for me, Thank-you Descartes. Thank-you algebra.

Now I'm doing the whiffle from memory and scratch.

This is weird- now I'm running into issues with how my inner cube is sitting when I enlarge it. Interesting. Starting over. I should have been named Pauli.

It froze up when I was adjusting the placement of the third cylinder, so I deleted that cylinder and went from there, no issues.

28 May 2018

Not sure what I did differently today, but each of my axes centered when I worked on the Turner's Cube from this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmrfB47xrFE&index=2&list=PL6fZ68Cq3L8k0JhxnIVjZQN26cn9idJrj, so now it is done. I ran into other issues, mainly from leaving out steps going through do-overs, but at this point the face/sketch/close-open/add pocket, etc. seems to be flowing smoothly and the Turner's Cube is complete. On to the next tutorial. That was about 2 hours. I can definitely do the Turner's Cube from scratch with no direction at this point.

I'm like the slow wheel of the Athenian state on this, except I won't grind over Socrates. It took a minute, but it is definitely hard set. It's nice to get things ingrained so I don't have to go back over instructions each time.

  • I need to remind myself to look at the other logs and try to figure out how to track my hours automagically.

Something I figured out this morning was that I was forgetting to highlight faces before hitting the sketch button. Also had something to do with the pocket- I wasn't selecting the face.

Now on to the Whiffle Ball tutorial. This will hopefully go more quickly and smoothly. I really want to get this learned and the test done so that I can focus on the economics of Open Source. This meshes so perfectly with my goals. Again, thank-you Lex.

I'd also like more time to look at other logs.

Another hour plus into the next tutorial, a Whiffle Ball, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmrfB47xrFE&list=PL6fZ68Cq3L8k0JhxnIVjZQN26cn9idJrj&index=2, it occurs to me that if I save the project incrementally I won't have to start over from the beginning when I misstep. Derp. Headed to the gym and will start over, with regular project saving, when I get back.

Another hour plus in- This is actually fun and the missteps are no longer aggravating nor scary. I find the instructor for the tutorial has a very reassuring voice and manner, and moves at a slow enough pace to follow. I'm still stopping, rewinding (Is that still a word?), starting bits over. Lots of undo in the edit. And now I have martial arts lessons to go to. I'll have to work on the 3D3 BOM on the bus and during breaks at work. I can't see packing my laptop (It's a brick) and my Chromebook to work for the possibility of getting in a half-hour on FreeCAD.

Samsung runs on Linux. Shouldn't I be able to FreeCAD on my Sammy?

27 May 2018

Going through this FreeCAD tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HEvhclR4-o&list=PL6fZ68Cq3L8k0JhxnIVjZQN26cn9idJrj&index=1

It's working out well. I'm going a ways then stopping and redoing from memory. Ran into things like forgetting to create the pad before attempting to make a pocket. Also learned that if I put a circle in the square without closing then reopening the sketch it makes a hole through it.

I finally stalled out after getting the three pockets made then attempting to start on a new face, but the intersection for the axes was on the edge and not the center of the face of the cube.

I was in it a little over 2 hours today. Closed out and I'll start from the beginning tomorrow. I'm thinking the problem was a setting earlier on maybe. Idk. But I'm sure I'll figure it out or find someone to explain it to me if I don't.

On the plus side, I got the train tickets to Eugene and back and am making arrangements to stay at Campbell Club, a housing co-op adjacent to campus. Definitely looking forward to the workshop and happy to have some time to work on this FreeCAD for a couple more days.


26 May 2018

Relistening about kit.com from last dev meeting, working BOM.

Already on the first item-

m6x18 zinc plated socket screw

The only availability is in quantities of 400.

Hmmmm.

25 May 2018

Started updating BOM to Amazon sourced last night.

Maybe the kit site will have a workaround, but it occurred to me that sometimes suppliers are out. Not sure how this will affect the kit order- IE, do they send minus what's not yet available or do they hold the entire kit or do they sub?

We need a source on Amazon to 3D print parts on demand. *laughythingy*

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.

Putting on workshops sounds like heaven.

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.


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.


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").


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.

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-

(27 June, edited to add: See right here? I still say that sometimes by mistake. I'm killing me- NOT download. BURN or INSTALL.)

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.

-)

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.