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Alright, so this is a quick

video of my journey in China.

In true it has been an awesome one.

I hope you enjoy.

Alright, so as we began this course we

were given a beautiful

syllabus which as we can

follow started off with the Internet of

Things or IoT for short,

followed off by increasing

some editing skill, then was supposed to

dive into AI tech and

then finally the beautiful

world 3D printing.

So without any further ado, let's dive

into the Internet of Things.

Now in the Internet of Things we'll

discuss several things

including the architecture

of it, how it's implemented from the

basic components, how

to get that on the board,

how to get them tested and all of those

goodies, down to different

types of single board chips

including STM32, how to use them, how to

program them and we had

loads, loads of fun with that

one there.

Not only that, we also got a chance to

play with several other

boards including the ZigBee

board which uses the ZigBee protocol.

A very new concept to me to be quite

frank but it was an

exciting experience nonetheless

having the ability to follow the Chinese

class with the teachers

doing their best to translate

the information to us and we are also

doing our part to

capture as much as possible but

we did capture a lot of the basics that

led to a better understanding overall.

But by far my favorite was when we moved

on to the Arduino board

which is also a single

chip board but it is a bit more for

hobbyists and I do believe

our children back home will

be able to relate much easier with that.

Given that's a bit my favorite, let's

have a quick view of some

of the projects we managed

to do with that.

Amongst several projects that was done,

one of my favorite ones

was to play with the radar

sensor where basically this was able to

measure a night time in

front of the radar sensor,

along with give accurate measurement of

where it was for the most part.

Of course it did become some fine tuning

as we went forward but

nonetheless we got some

exciting result.

We also managed to play with several

other sensors but from

the radar sensor we managed

to make a bigger project which was a

little bit of an overview of how

everything was operating

even with a graphical display.

I did have to put in a little bit of

research for that but I'm

very grateful for the experience

that led to me being

able to reach that research.

Additionally, when we moved on from these

smaller computers we

started looking at more

advanced applications which is when we

started developing the board.

Let's have a quick look at that project.

Alright, so we have an awesome chance to

film this amazing

project and sorry we started

a little bit late but we managed to do

this in the first few

days here and we had not

considered making a full-stop documentary

about it so let's

just go through the board

and explain a few things.

So right here we have

all the analog components.

So here we send in later an analog signal

and all the analog

signal will be gathered

here in this atom 4017.

And here at the bottom we have all the

ones that we send in digital signal.

I'm going over them very shortly but they

all send data here

and these two will send

data to the serializer and then to the

state query which sends

to the router and I found

the router we get access to this awesome

path which I'm going to

show you guys afterwards

and we'll get a chance to do some

experiment at least once just to go over

a few basic concepts.

Each one, this one here we have our

community and temperature

sensor where the study detects

the humidity of everything and if I hold

it I can change

temperature which we can go

for later.

This is a wind speed meter.

It just indicates how fast the wind is

going or just like I'm

using the system right now

with my hand.

Here we put in an alarm light, here we

put a flood light and

here we put a power sensor

mixed with a bit of noise.

That's how you go.

And these are all the

components that are connected there.

We do want to make mention of a relay as

well which is for this.

So just before that you will go down to

the relay and the relay

will send the signal back up

and just be able to use the power there.

Flood light, same thing as

well, so we'll read it for you.

And the other ones are

quite straight forward.

And this little bit here that's connected

slightly differently just by itself but

it's a powerful camera

that can do face ID as well and yeah, it

was a cool play around with it.

And one little piece of device I didn't

mention is this little guy here that is

taking signal from here.

Okay, and processing it and then sending

it to the machine there.

We're actually going to use this in our

experiment but we're going to trigger

this file and tell it to

play in the same position

and we're going to make this light come

on and yeah, that's a

little bit of a hot tip.

I'm sure you'll be

behind the scene as well.

Just follow a little bit of a connection.

I love how much this is done and go up to

the scene first of all.

This is the behind

the scene of everything.

As you can see some nice

cable management as well done.

So all the cables that you're seeing

there in the middle of it,

all the cables that you're

seeing in red and black, okay.

So these are all your power cables and

your ground cables

going there respectively.

And on the side we've got different

voltage that might be needed all the way

from 5 volts, 12 volts, 24 volts.

All of them have been

connected accordingly.

And the yellow cable, these are the ones

typically we use for data.

Like here, this is the power

line that we have in front.

So it's also sending

its data very yellow.

Okay, here, alright.

And if I can follow another one, these

are some of the examples down below.

But all the other ones,

sometimes new ones as well.

These are typically your data cable.

Everything is nicely organized.

We've got a few adapters here.

This is a wonderful shelf.

Look forward to playing more with these.

Awesome.

So now that we've seen the behind the

scene and these awesome components,

let's do a quick

experiment with some power.

But first of all, let's jump to the

computer and get this started.

So now that programming is done, let me

tell you what should happen

that when this plane is

detected by this little device,

we should get a nice

little response here.

Just like that.

And these are some of the powers I've

learned on this short journey.

All of these, there's a lot of

conditional logic

making it more exciting.

And I look forward to playing it back

home with the kids and

teaching them some more.

So thank you very much for the

opportunity of learning with us.

And thank you to all the students and

teachers that I've helped.

Tia-si.

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Our second major,

improving our video editing skills.

Why did I choose this major?

Answer is simple.

My awesome students back home.

I run a group of students and train them

in the art of mobile filmmaking

called PRAST Media Team.

And when I sought this opportunity to

learn more skills in that domain,

it was a no-brainer.

I jumped to it immediately.

And even though we are far away, that did

not stop us from

collaborating on some projects.

With the help of one of my students, I

managed to put together

a small compilation of all

the skills we've learned.

And with her help doing the voiceover, we

managed to achieve this.

Let's have a look.

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Hope you enjoyed that one.

Towards the end, I will

share another one with you.

So stay tuned for that.

But for now, let's have a look at all the

skills we've gathered

over the basic to the intermediate level.

Although it will be brief, that should

paint a big picture of

all the skills gathered

and with the showcase at the end

concluding everything.

Let's have a look.

In After Effects, we got the chance to

play with masking, animation,

null object, and so much more.

From transition, SVG basic, and even

eventually starting to combine

the different basic skills to create a

more complex animation.

We learned about effects

and preset animation as well,

which was loads of fun and allow us to

create much more complex projects

as we moved forward.

Again, a lot of experience

we gathered from this project.

The part that I love the most about AE,

surprisingly, is the maps.

And I wanted to do something with that.

And as promised, here's a little video,

again with Ariza,

showing the power of AE.

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Moving on to our next

major, 3D printing and modeling.

The first big question that

I always ask myself is why?

And for this one, the answer was simple.

One, I'm very passionate about 3D

printing and modeling,

as I see a lot of potential in helping

our students back home,

in building artisanal and new ways of

designing products that they might have

not thought of before.

The second one, something close to my

heart, a picture that my wife sent me.

And from that picture, I've got an idea.

I wanted to build one project that I can

help not only my students,

but also my awesome kids.

Let's have a look.

For the next project, I'm really excited

about this one, because I've always been

a passionate about it.

And that's 3D printing.

But let's just say, first of all, we

started off on a few rough notes.

But even though we started off with a

good opportunity to learn,

and we did not stop there,

still kept on trying, even though we got

better every single time,

we did not stop there, kept on trying,

and still did not make it quite yet,

until finally we managed

to get something decent.

And from that start, we went even bigger.

Let me show you.

So, this is all nice looking here outside

in the practical world, but let's see how

we got it to work on the computer.

Part of any 3D printing, you need to be

able to slice the model

to be able to print it.

But here I had a few surprises, which

I'll reveal later on.

So, that was it.

Now all that's left I guess to wait.

But first you don't succeed.

Try, try, try again.

Alright, so it's a nice

beautiful Sunday morning.

A little bit of rain.

But last night I checked on the print,

everything seemed to be going in order.

Just finished at 5.47,

according to my timer.

So, now it's time to go and check it out.

Let's see how it is.

Let's see how it is.

Wonderful experiences were

gathered from that project.

And the final product here, well let's

just say there was a

few design flaws in it.

One, the neck came apart.

This was mostly due because

of the lack of printing design.

I cut it too many times, I should have

made it in one piece.

And secondly, the lack of sanding to make

this adhere much better.

But if you fail, never give

up, always try and try again.

But for right now, I think I'm going to

put a pin in this project.

Let's move on to the next one.

This part of learning, my why was simple.

It was not necessarily directly for the

student, but rather for the

administrative part of the school.

Back home, we do have a way to monitor

all the student grade.

But at the end of the day, it is just

sitting there in an excel

sheet and not being useful.

So I thought to myself, what if there was

a way we could mine that data?

What if there was a way we could see

future patterns and make actionable

decisions on those patterns?

There was something wrong, fix it before

it becomes that problem.

And that's exactly what I did.

With the help of our teacher, we managed

to build a simple model,

but a simple model that explained a lot

of the basic concepts needed

to build a more advanced one.

And that is one of my ambitions when I do

get back home, is to build a bigger model

that can cater for those needs.

But one step at a time.

I was happy enough to be able to build

that first model and see

the power that AI brings.

We did learn a lot more

about different types of model.

And let's have a look at that.

From learning about simple linear

regression and more advanced model, all

consolidated with exercises,

one thing was sure, I

did it to polish my maths.

And from being able to save the model,

that was a really empowering thing.

And I made the most of it.

AI is more than just code.

And I was surprised to find out, it can

be used in several places, manufacturing,

robotics, and so many other places,

as I got the chance to

experience and see firsthand here.

And I'm very grateful

for those experiences.

And all that knowledge has broadened my

horizon to allow me to see a whole new

world of possibilities.

And I look forward to make actionable

decisions on this information that I

gathered, and all the

experiences that I've embarked with.

Being a software engineer myself, and

learning these new skills, I was

wondering, how do I put a

website with this AI stuff?

And that's exactly what I got the

permission to do by our teacher.

And I built this program.

Let's have a look.

As per any AI model, we

needed to create the model.

And first step was a lot of cleaning.

So we managed to get all the data

together and looking nice.

And from there, we started building the

stuff that we need to test it.

And it was working well, so we saved it.

From there, we built a little Python

server using Flask, and some util file

that would pull the data from that model.

And all of that data was easily

accessible in this folder as well.

Additionally, we created a little HTML

page that would allow you user to

interact with this

model, making it awesome.

And we threw in a little bit of CSS as

well, just to make it look nice.

And as you can see, we can just put in

the data now and pull data from the

model, which was epic.

And I look forward to

doing this again back home.

Our fourth and final major was actually

the 3D printing and modeling, even though

I had started a bit early,

because I got a bit too excited.

In this part of the major, we now start

looking at the other side of 3D printing,

the actual modeling parts.

And I did get a lot of experience with

that in the Maya course

with our awesome teacher.

And I did venture a little bit on my own

as well to empower myself.

So with the new skill set, I wanted to

see what can be built.

So I started building some

simple models, moving it up.

A little bit more complex.

And that became very exciting, because

now I started learning the basic building

blocks that I needed to

start building my own model.

And that was all cool and great.

And I look forward to be able to share

that experience with my students, because

the learning curve is not too complex as

soon as you start understanding the 3D

space and being able to

manipulate it successfully.

And I'm sure my students will be excited

to learn this new skill as well.

And of course, this video would not be

complete, and my heart would not be at

peace if I did not finish

the project of the ukulele.

So I gave it another shot by going back

at it. Let's have a look at that journey.

Just before we started the 3D printing,

we had a quick look at all

the awesome texts around.

And truly, there was a ton of them that

aid in manufacturing and a

bunch of other amazing stuff.

After making a few

souvenirs, we were back to business.

Exploring some of the texts there and

some possibilities of what

can be done, we got to slicing.

And this time, I did my best to avoid

some of the mistakes we did last time,

which I did think it paid off.

Stay tuned!

Okay, so day two of the printing. Now

we're going to go back inside and collect

a successfully printed body.

Let's go and see.

And finally, the first part

was done. But we're not done yet.

On to the neck. After replacing it onto

the proper place this time and printing

it in whole, we were

off to printing again.

After a little bit of sweat and blood.

All pirates, yes, they're a-bye.

So I'll guide the merchant ships.

Then it's after that's a-kind.

From the bottomless pits.

But my head was met strong.

By the end of the Almighty,

we've powered in this generation.

With this musical instrument, something

to note that there is

room for improvement.

Of course, the sound hole is a bit small

and that can be

improved upon in the design.

And making it bigger can improve the

sound quality as well.

Secondly, the cost of making these.

It can be improved in terms of quality,

but also the cost can be

dropped down significantly.

I do look forward to exploring that

concept more and making it a viable

option to getting musical instruments all

around our students and

getting them the joy of playing.

Another note and final one is the only

thing that was not 3D printed is of

course the strings and the tuning notes.

And there you have it. My first playable

ukulele, which I look

forward to sharing with my son.

And for my students, maybe even teach

them how to make their own.

And why not make

something bigger, like a guitar?

And even more ambitious, why not make

much more and send it as a music program

to the other schools?

The possibilities are endless with this.

( Henry French-ashi decomposition "