Log

6AM

  • Wake up, shower
  • Import Meta Raybans footage
    • Ran into issue where footage wasn’t ordered correctly, blocked me for a while as I figured out the Kingston -> WD Black
    • Wrote a script with cursor to copy the “Date Modified” property over to the “Creation Date” property of each imported file
  • Record 4 versions of my intro to this project
    • Edit one of the versions into the longer video
    • Chop up longer video to be faster paced, include section where I break my DJI
  • Edited Meta Raybans footage for a bit
  • Chatted with Josie for a bit

12PM

  • Get some food, 3 steamed buns and a smoothie
  • Bike ~40 minutes in sweltering heat over to Fablab
  • Guy who runs the space isn’t there, meander around Fablab for 30 minutes

2PM

  • Enter Fablab
  • Get ESP32Cam hooked up again
  • Research where to buy OV cameras with longer ribbons so I can attach them
  • Shopee shopping cart figured out
    • Blocker: Need a Taiwanese phone number
  • Download Autodesk Fusion

5:30PM

  • Looking to leave Fablab soon
  • Hao-min teaches me how to lock up the space which is crazy to me bro just trusts some random girl he met yesterday with these instructions
  • Bought eyedrops

7:30PM

  • First solo sit-down restaurant: Random beef place
  • Taiwanese fried chicken at night market
  • Transit back

9:30PM

  • Pass out

Thoughts

  • Overcame several fears/uncertainties
    • Ordering food from a stall in Chinese and saying characters incorrectly
    • Reading Chinese characters in order to order food
    • Pointing Pleco up at the menu and looking stupid to read the Chinese characters
    • Pulled out my ESP32 Cam + breadboard + other sensors box in front of Hao-min who was building an avant-garde Pleko board with pressure sensors and a 7 segment LCD display
    • Receiving critical feedback on the way I present myself in my video and not taking offense.
  • Mental fortitude
    • Saw someone with a really stacked portfolio and resume, felt down, got over it
    • Overwhelmed by what I need to get done to make this thing exist, still doing it
    • Not yet feeling lonely