First Week Blog

     Hi, my name is Daniel. Last week, I bought all of my supplies for my remote-controlled rover. I checked over all of them and I think they are going to work very well for my purpose. I will begin to learn how to code in Python starting from today. I have talked to my dad about my project and he said that he was going to help me learn coding since he is really good at it. He learned about 4 kinds of coding language when he was in college. I think that he will help my a lot during my project. I have also found an expert in my topic field on YouTube. His account is called "Explaining Computers".

Here is the website address for anyone who wants to visit his website on YouTube. Here is also his official website. He has already made a remote-controlled rover out of Raspberry Pi and coded everything that controls it so it should help very much. He has done a lot of computer related stuff over the years, which I'm interested in, so that's why I picked him to be my guide on this project. I think I will end it here for today's blog. Until next time!

20% Time Proposal

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[Daniel Lee]

Proposal: [Making a Rover Using Raspberry Pi]

[How to Remotely Control a Rover]

Needs and Opportunities

Are you solving a problem for yourself or others? How will this project be a learning and growing experience? What is your goal? I am solving a problem for myself. I always wanted to learn how to code but didn’t have enough time. Now, I can finally learn it. This project will be a learning experience by me getting to learn how to code. I can grow my knowledge by this. My final goal is to be really good in coding.

Audience / Clients / Users

Explain who will benefit from your project. Who is your audience – who might be interested in following your blog and learning about your project? People who are interested in coding can benefit from my project by seeing how I coded from scratch. My audience is going to be people who want to try to make a project using coding.

Mentors

Who can help you with this project? Who will you need to contact and what will you ask them to commit to in helping you? My dad is going to be my mentor for this project. I will need to ask him to help me code because he is very good in coding.

Timeline

What is your monthly timeline for this project? I want to see a list of deliverables with deadlines. You may find that the timeline needs adjustment during the course of the year, which may be fine. Check in with me if that’s the case.

February 17	Buy my supplies for this project.
February 24	Start to learn how to code.
March 3	Learn how to code.
March 10	Learn how to code.
March 24	Learn how to code.
March 31	Learn how to code.
April 7	Start to build my project.
April 14	Work on my project
April 21	Work on my project.
April 28	Work on my Tri-fold.
May 5 (Prep for Presentation Day)	Practice my presentation skills.
May 12 (Presentation Day)	Present.

Product

What is the actual product you will show this spring? This project may or may not be made of atoms or bits, but you must have something to show. I’m not interested seeing a bunch of great ideas at the end of the year. I want to see things. I will show my remote controlled rover this spring.

Technology

You will have to use technology in some way on presentation day – think about how you can use the tools available to add life into your project and enhance what you are doing. (Video, laptops, apps, cell phones, music, etc.) I will use my computer to code and learn how to code.

Reality Check

I am looking for you to shoot for the moon here and do anything you can dream of, but even moonshots need budgets. What equipment are you going to need? What other capital expenditures do you anticipate, and how will you meet them? I am going to need a Raspberry Pi 3 with its case. I am going to need a battery and a battery bank. I am going to need a voltage controller and a breadboard. I am finally going to need a wireless keyboard. I anticipate spending up to $150. I will use my money that I have right now.

Possible Roadblocks

What other roadblocks can you predict – time, resources, motivation etc. Explain what you might do when you come to each roadblock to reach your goal. I think that I might have some time shortages and not having resources that I need. I will need to “make more time” and try to find the parts I need.

Conclusion

Wrap it up. Why are you fired up about this project? Inspire me to support you, and give me a great reason to approve your project. I am excited about learning how to code and making my own unique project. I really want to control something using a computer and test my knowledge to its edge. I plan to use my coding skills I will learn for other projects in the future or possibly as my job. Thank you.