WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:03.540 This is a bonus, listen, that is a bit different. 00:03.990 --> 00:10.170 I felt it would be interesting to give you some tips and best practices on the process of creating your 00:10.170 --> 00:11.670 own original project. 00:12.180 --> 00:17.610 So this lesson is not technical, but just some general tips from my own experience. 00:18.000 --> 00:23.820 The goal here is to give you some ideas of where to start and what to do for your future projects, 00:24.150 --> 00:28.980 starting also from what we have done in this course and in this final project of the course. 00:29.160 --> 00:32.550 And I would focus on mainly five parts first. 00:32.580 --> 00:35.070 How to get ideas if you don't already have one. 00:35.460 --> 00:42.330 OK, that could be ideas for a hobby project, all, for example, for a startup project and then a 00:42.330 --> 00:43.320 full step process. 00:43.320 --> 00:49.560 I would do for a new Keystone project, which is first to imagine the global architecture for the project, 00:49.980 --> 00:53.920 then to build a proof of concept and then build a project. 00:54.180 --> 00:56.070 In other words, the prototype. 00:56.520 --> 01:00.690 And finally, and this is optional how to go further with your prototype. 01:00.930 --> 01:04.830 Once you have done the project, all right, and let's get started. 01:05.610 --> 01:09.210 So first of all, you will need, of course, a project idea. 01:09.420 --> 01:10.920 So if you already have one? 01:11.100 --> 01:13.920 Well, you can just watch this for more inspiration. 01:14.190 --> 01:16.880 And then we're going to get started with how to build the project. 01:16.890 --> 01:18.360 But if you don't have ideas? 01:18.720 --> 01:24.570 Well, if you're looking for a hobby project, so a hobby project would be something that you do at 01:24.570 --> 01:24.900 home. 01:25.560 --> 01:29.520 Just for the purpose of having fun are also educational purpose. 01:29.530 --> 01:31.320 So if you want to learn more about Arduino. 01:31.650 --> 01:36.720 Well, first of all, and that's kind of obvious, but you can search for art in a project on Google, 01:37.020 --> 01:44.130 and you can see you would have like 20 Project and he 400 Project 50 300, so you can browse all those 01:44.130 --> 01:47.640 ideas and then maybe you will find something that you like. 01:47.970 --> 01:51.750 I'm going to just show you, for example, on the Arduino Project Hope. 01:52.050 --> 01:52.350 OK. 01:53.070 --> 01:55.970 You have many different projects you can browse, OK? 01:55.980 --> 01:58.920 And so for each project, you have a description. 01:58.950 --> 02:00.540 How do you project the code? 02:00.570 --> 02:01.050 Everything. 02:01.050 --> 02:02.460 So you can get started with this. 02:02.880 --> 02:05.840 So you have a step by step way to do project. 02:06.240 --> 02:12.420 If you go on Instructables also and just search for, I don't know here. 02:14.140 --> 02:19.360 Well, you also have many, many marginal projects, okay, so you can for young people in the games 02:19.360 --> 02:26.140 with OCD and all kinds of cool projects, some of them are going to be more hardware related, some 02:26.140 --> 02:28.270 of them more software related. 02:28.660 --> 02:28.930 OK. 02:29.140 --> 02:30.760 You can find many different things. 02:31.060 --> 02:36.760 So if you too to practice more, we just project that's already existing that already have a solution 02:37.030 --> 02:39.290 while not something you can look at. 02:39.320 --> 02:45.640 And then, of course, you can create your own project with your own ideas and maybe post them in those 02:45.640 --> 02:51.550 websites and know well, if you are looking for ideas for a starter project, for example, if you want 02:51.550 --> 02:58.060 to commercialize a product or just help people with a product, then well, the first question is, 02:58.060 --> 03:01.820 of course, what is the real problem you're going to solve here? 03:01.860 --> 03:05.950 OK, what's the real problem they have and how are you going to solve it? 03:06.170 --> 03:07.960 And for this where you can browse projects? 03:07.960 --> 03:13.450 But basically the most important thing is to find what is the real problem and how to solve it. 03:13.460 --> 03:15.550 There is no way around that. 03:16.120 --> 03:22.390 So if you're expecting me to give you a very clear answer on how to find a good project for a startup 03:22.720 --> 03:28.900 while unfortunately I'm not going to give you that because what the real answer here is, it depends. 03:29.070 --> 03:32.890 And every problem will have a different solution. 03:33.130 --> 03:35.980 But then once you know, what is the problem you're trying to solve? 03:35.980 --> 03:40.660 And then once you know that you can make your prototype without, you know, then you have to project 03:40.660 --> 03:40.870 it. 03:41.320 --> 03:45.550 And we can start with the full steps process to build the project. 03:46.480 --> 03:51.910 So first of all, before you even get started with your project, so before you write code, before 03:51.910 --> 03:57.880 you do electronics, before you do anything, you have to imagine what is the global architecture of 03:57.880 --> 03:58.480 your project? 03:58.510 --> 04:01.550 OK, so what kind of components do you need? 04:01.570 --> 04:06.710 How they are going to communicate between each other and what exactly is the technical result? 04:06.730 --> 04:08.530 You need to reach for the project. 04:08.980 --> 04:16.060 So for example, if your project is to measure the temperature in one room of your house and to get 04:16.060 --> 04:22.480 this temperature printed on a different room, well, you can think of components that, OK, I need 04:22.480 --> 04:27.790 a temperature sensor, of course, but then I would need to make this communicate with the other room. 04:28.090 --> 04:31.420 So just using wires is maybe not the best solution. 04:31.690 --> 04:36.700 So in this case, well, you might need a Wi-Fi module or a Bluetooth module. 04:37.030 --> 04:41.470 Well, you might investigate on what is the best communication to do that. 04:41.620 --> 04:41.980 OK. 04:42.430 --> 04:44.330 So we'll find what components you need. 04:44.350 --> 04:49.390 You don't necessarily need the exact components right now, but the kind of components? 04:49.420 --> 04:49.720 OK. 04:50.010 --> 04:55.630 And also what this is the technical result you need because, well, if you start from a problem, well, 04:55.630 --> 04:58.120 there are different ways to solve a given problems. 04:58.420 --> 05:05.050 And if you want to create a technical solution with Arduino now probably different ways and different 05:05.050 --> 05:06.700 technical results you can do. 05:07.000 --> 05:13.900 So here you might think of different technical solutions and how everything is going to work together. 05:14.590 --> 05:17.410 And if you do this well, you don't need to spend days and days. 05:17.410 --> 05:23.550 But if you do this well, you may save some money because while the components are going to buy are, 05:23.560 --> 05:24.910 I'm going to be super expensive. 05:25.210 --> 05:31.330 And you may also save a lot of time because one solution may be much easier than another solution. 05:31.750 --> 05:32.050 All right. 05:32.290 --> 05:37.740 So once you have the global architecture of a project, then starting to build a proof of concept on 05:37.780 --> 05:39.790 what we can also call a book. 05:40.150 --> 05:41.690 And so here what is the goal? 05:41.710 --> 05:44.740 The goal is just to show that the idea works. 05:45.190 --> 05:52.810 OK, so if you want to, for example, make a contractual stencil, talk to an LCD screen using wireless 05:52.810 --> 05:58.090 communication, then you're not going to do the whole project, but you're just going to make it work 05:58.300 --> 05:59.290 on your desktop. 05:59.300 --> 06:02.950 So using a breadboard using cheap and easy to use components. 06:03.370 --> 06:03.700 OK. 06:03.850 --> 06:06.100 You're going to add each component one by one. 06:06.110 --> 06:10.660 So for example, first on your breadboard, you add the temperature sensor, you make sure you can read 06:10.660 --> 06:11.170 the value. 06:11.590 --> 06:16.960 And then once it's done, you go to the next component so you test each component, you make the code 06:16.960 --> 06:17.440 for each. 06:17.800 --> 06:23.860 You make a secret a very basic secret for each and then you make them work together and you test the 06:23.860 --> 06:27.910 overall functionalities and you also iterate more doing that. 06:27.910 --> 06:29.840 So you have this temperature sensor. 06:29.860 --> 06:30.760 You have to see that. 06:31.120 --> 06:36.610 Then you're going to, for example, test the LCD screen on a the same way, but a different one. 06:37.030 --> 06:40.840 And then maybe you will need, for example, to adrenals. 06:41.080 --> 06:45.910 So you're going to make sure that you can communicate between the two other nodes using a Wi-Fi module 06:46.150 --> 06:47.680 or using a Bluetooth module. 06:47.950 --> 06:50.440 So just show that the I.D. works here. 06:50.890 --> 06:58.810 You don't need to make the project work at scale or completely fully integrated in the environment. 06:59.130 --> 07:01.510 OK, you just want to show that it's working. 07:01.720 --> 07:05.020 It's kind of what we did actually with this final project of this course. 07:05.350 --> 07:08.320 OK, we put everything in a breadboard. 07:08.620 --> 07:13.450 So first, we build the circuit step by step with each component that we have tested during the. 07:14.150 --> 07:19.130 And then for the final project, we have separated the different functionalities that we want to test, 07:19.130 --> 07:24.410 and each functionality was added on the previous ones that were already working. 07:24.860 --> 07:30.740 And the result is that we have a complete system, a complete obstacle detection system that is working 07:31.070 --> 07:31.910 on the breadboard. 07:32.150 --> 07:35.060 And so this is actually the proof of concept. 07:35.150 --> 07:42.140 So you might want to stop here, but then well, since they would be to build the prototype. 07:42.500 --> 07:46.380 So here you will integrate your project in the environs. 07:46.400 --> 07:46.730 OK. 07:47.030 --> 07:52.340 Just make it work basically can be a prototype can also be called a MVP. 07:52.610 --> 07:55.940 So MVP is a minimal, viable product. 07:56.010 --> 08:01.410 OK, if you are building something for a startup, you need something that is working in the environment. 08:01.430 --> 08:03.770 We did just the mean on functionalities. 08:03.770 --> 08:05.360 You need to solve the problem. 08:05.480 --> 08:10.610 And so here you will need to assemble the components you need to build something, for example, build 08:10.970 --> 08:17.960 mechanical components with a 3D printer with ACNC machine, etc. also sold some components. 08:18.260 --> 08:20.830 Just so here you might not use a breadboard. 08:21.320 --> 08:24.380 But but all the components in the real enlightenment. 08:24.500 --> 08:28.190 And again, you're going to tell the functionalities one by one chemicals. 08:28.190 --> 08:29.420 Now you already have the code. 08:29.720 --> 08:34.520 The code was done in the previous step, so you're going to test again each functionalities. 08:34.850 --> 08:36.740 And now you know that the code is working. 08:37.220 --> 08:40.560 So if something is not working, then is the hardware. 08:40.580 --> 08:42.560 And so you continued, you continue. 08:42.980 --> 08:44.120 You fix issues. 08:44.120 --> 08:49.160 You iterate until the project is working fine on the environment. 08:49.190 --> 08:49.490 OK. 08:49.700 --> 08:52.250 So step two was to just make sure it works. 08:52.550 --> 08:56.200 Step three is when the project in the environment. 08:56.270 --> 09:01.370 And so, for example, if you want to go further with this obstacle detection project, you can actually 09:01.370 --> 09:08.540 make it to work using not a breadboard, but just using the components in a real situation in a robot, 09:08.540 --> 09:09.110 for example. 09:09.350 --> 09:11.950 And in this case, you will need to still do some stuff. 09:11.960 --> 09:15.980 You will need to correctly place the components and then test everything again. 09:16.190 --> 09:22.460 And then you have your prototype, which is ready, and the next step is actually to go further with 09:22.460 --> 09:23.180 the prototype. 09:23.450 --> 09:30.040 And so if you just have a hobby project, you maybe want to share it online and put it open source so 09:30.050 --> 09:32.900 you might put the code on GitHub, for example. 09:33.140 --> 09:38.450 And this is a good way to get feedback and to improve the way you build your project, because putting 09:38.450 --> 09:41.750 something online, you're going to need to correctly package it. 09:41.750 --> 09:47.960 You need to correct Karakia, write the code, add some comments, maybe, and then just write a good 09:47.960 --> 09:48.590 description. 09:48.600 --> 09:53.900 So that's going to help you introduce your project to other people and maybe better understand your 09:53.900 --> 09:54.350 project. 09:54.710 --> 09:59.090 And also, you can get feedback and some other people may use your project. 09:59.510 --> 10:01.520 So that can be useful for everyone. 10:01.700 --> 10:08.000 And if you want to make it a project for a startup company, for example, well, you have to communicate 10:08.000 --> 10:09.110 about it first. 10:09.140 --> 10:10.100 That's very important. 10:10.400 --> 10:13.220 So again, maybe your project can be Open-Source. 10:13.400 --> 10:16.130 That's one option you may think of. 10:16.460 --> 10:22.160 And so basically here you need to will find communities online and just talk about your project and 10:22.160 --> 10:23.870 see if people are interested. 10:24.170 --> 10:29.690 Then if you need some funding, you can start a, for example, a crowdfunding campaign that's very 10:29.690 --> 10:31.330 common to do. 10:31.370 --> 10:34.670 You can use, for example, Kickstarter or Indiegogo. 10:35.090 --> 10:37.190 Those are two very popular platforms. 10:37.460 --> 10:43.250 And on those platforms, you can actually kind of presale your product so that you're going to have 10:43.250 --> 10:49.370 money for the future development and especially for the scale development of your products. 10:49.370 --> 10:55.460 Because if you have need one product, that's very different from making 100 products when it comes 10:55.460 --> 10:56.030 to hardware. 10:56.420 --> 11:01.400 And also, in the meantime, you may want to learn about hardware production, so I'm not going to go 11:01.670 --> 11:04.970 in details about that as a very completely different topic. 11:05.300 --> 11:07.550 Well, you will need to contact suppliers. 11:07.820 --> 11:14.660 So how do our suppliers, mechanical suppliers, maybe suppliers for different models and also PCB manufacturers? 11:14.660 --> 11:18.630 Because maybe after going with Arduino, you're going to make your own PCB. 11:19.130 --> 11:24.830 OK, so you're going to need to learn about all that and all that cost a lot of money, and that's where 11:24.830 --> 11:27.800 the crowdfunding campaign can be really helpful. 11:28.040 --> 11:29.000 All right, that's the end. 11:29.360 --> 11:35.240 Those tips should help you make some better decisions for your next project so you can be more efficient 11:35.510 --> 11:37.880 in the process of doing the project. 11:38.090 --> 11:41.080 Now, let's go to the conclusion section of the class.