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When you are facing a problem, before starting to browse the Internet and scratch your head, take a look to AIRWiki: it's possible that other users already solved it for you. If you don't find the solution on AIRWiki and have to look elsewhere for it (and possibly do a lot of work), when you finish... add it to AIRWiki!
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When you are facing a problem, take a look to AIRWiki: it's possible that other users already solved it for you. If you don't find the solution on AIRWiki and have to look elsewhere for it (and possibly do a lot of work), when you finish... add it to AIRWiki!
  
 
If you find a page useful and you want to know if someone ever adds other good stuff to it, you can watch the page. Just click on the watch button at the top of the page you're interested in. You will receive an email notification for any update.  
 
If you find a page useful and you want to know if someone ever adds other good stuff to it, you can watch the page. Just click on the watch button at the top of the page you're interested in. You will receive an email notification for any update.  
  
== Bureaucracy ==
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== To become an AIRLab user ==
===== Bureaucracy for Users =====
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You can find a complete description of the process in the [[Bureaucracy]] page, but these are the main stages:
* Read first the [[Safety norms | safety norms]] (remember that you '''must''' know these and comply with them)
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# enter the AIRWiki community: ask your Advisor to set up an AIRWiki user account for you
* Then there are some [[Bureaucracy | bureaucratic procedures]] to obtain the access to the AIRLab.
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# know what you're doing: learn the [[Safety norms | safety norms]] and the [[AIRLab rules]]
* Before completing bureaucratic procedures, you will have to [[HOWTO fill in your AIRWiki user page | fill in your AIRWiki user page]] and your [[Projects - HOWTO | project page]].
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# tell the other AIRLab users about you and your work: [[HOWTO fill in your AIRWiki user page | fill in your AIRWiki user page]] and set up a [[Projects - HOWTO | project page]] for your project
* [[AIRLab rules]] (they are few and simple, but you have to follow them)
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# obtain the certificate of successful completion of the courses about safety (available online at [http://sicurezza.metid.polimi.it/])
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# obtain the authorization to physically enter the lab: the procedure is described in the [[Bureaucracy]] page
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Please note that you will '''not''' be authorized if the AIRWiki pages which you have to prepare are not ready.
  
===== Airwiki Admistrators =====
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== To write a thesis ==
 
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[[Tesi|How to write a thesis?]] Suggestions to prepare your thesis (only in Italian for now... translators are welcome!).
* [[Airpaper]] (writing a paper? This is a tool to share it with the other authors)
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* [[DEI_Subversion_Administration]] (this is mainly for faculties)
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== Useful Resources ==
 
== Useful Resources ==
 
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Other information about where to test robots, how to write papers, and produce videos and much more are available on the page dedicated to [[Resources|useful resources]].
===== Writing and Reading =====
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* [[Tesi|Howto write a thesis?]] Suggestions to prepare your thesis (only in Italian for now... translators are welcome!).
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* [[Suggestions to write well]] can help to produce a good thesis, as well as good scientific publications in general. Here is the part of the 14 steps to write well found on the [http://www.sfedit.net San Francisco Edit company site] that Andrea Bonarini shares.
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* You can access '''all the papers''' for which Politecnico has bought a subscription even when you are at home if you enable the [[http://www.asi.polimi.it/rete/proxy/index.html Politecnico proxy]]. The instruction page is provided by the nice people of [http://www.asi.polimi.it/ ASI] in Italian only.  For an English version of the page, try to poke them if you can find how to get in touch with them.
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===== Software and programming =====
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* Someone wrote some advice about [[Writing Good Code|writing code]]
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* Info about [[Mathematica]]
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* How to plot using gnuplot in your C/C++ project [[Gnuplot in cpp]]
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* The ever-growing AIRLab guide about [[Getting Started With PIC(TM) MCU]]
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===== Hardware =====
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* Go to [[What's in the AIRLab]] if you are looking for stuff in the lab
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* Need to learn how to solder? Check the following links: [http://www.wireless.hackaday.com/2007/10/26/how-to-introduction-to-soldering/ 1] [http://www.wireless.hackaday.com/2007/10/28/followup-soldering-how-to/ 2] [http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol01/?pg=166 3]
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* Some useful addresses and links about shops, stores, factories. With some of them we have partnerships for discounts. You can found information [[Shops| here]].
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===== Producing videos and publishing them =====
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* Usually, at the end of the project, people tend to produce a video and put it on the web. The best way to do this is to [[produce a video]] and then send it to [[User:AndreaBonarini | Andrea Bonarini]] to have it published on the YouTube channel of the AIRLab. Then you can put the link wherever you want, hopefully also in the page of your project on AIRWiki, as done, e.g. in [[ROBOWII]]
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===== Miscellanea (uncategorized) =====
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* If you are searching the homepage of a DEI professor (or PhD Student) try this [http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=dei+people&skipcache=yes Mozilla plugin]
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* For [http://ph.dei.polimi.it/phday PhDay08] we've set up an [http://www.easychair.org Easychair] account for paper reviews. Here's a little [[EasyChair Reviews|tutorial for reviewers]] that might be useful in case you have to review somehing/teach someone how the system works.
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* Useful phone numbers, download [[Media:ElencoTelefonico.odt.zip|ODT]] document or [[Media:ElencoTelefonico.pdf|PDF]] .
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* [[Recipes]] (yes, REAL recipies of special food) from people at AIRLab
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Latest revision as of 16:51, 10 April 2013

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When you are facing a problem, take a look to AIRWiki: it's possible that other users already solved it for you. If you don't find the solution on AIRWiki and have to look elsewhere for it (and possibly do a lot of work), when you finish... add it to AIRWiki!

If you find a page useful and you want to know if someone ever adds other good stuff to it, you can watch the page. Just click on the watch button at the top of the page you're interested in. You will receive an email notification for any update.

To become an AIRLab user

You can find a complete description of the process in the Bureaucracy page, but these are the main stages:

  1. enter the AIRWiki community: ask your Advisor to set up an AIRWiki user account for you
  2. know what you're doing: learn the safety norms and the AIRLab rules
  3. tell the other AIRLab users about you and your work: fill in your AIRWiki user page and set up a project page for your project
  4. obtain the certificate of successful completion of the courses about safety (available online at [1])
  5. obtain the authorization to physically enter the lab: the procedure is described in the Bureaucracy page

Please note that you will not be authorized if the AIRWiki pages which you have to prepare are not ready.

To write a thesis

How to write a thesis? Suggestions to prepare your thesis (only in Italian for now... translators are welcome!).

Useful Resources

Other information about where to test robots, how to write papers, and produce videos and much more are available on the page dedicated to useful resources.