Thursday 9/9 (84 days left)

After stimulating (and slightly intimidating) introductions from all three professors, lunch, and a tour of the AAB facilities, we were assigned our first project: a surface that "orients", and whose "folds allow for [efficient] module deployment". We acquainted ourselves with each other, and immediately began formalizing these constraints, starting with brainstorming things to which the surface could orient. Our focus settled mainly on heat/light (solar energy) and moisture (water collection), but we soon hit a standstill, at which point the professors reminded us a) that thinking with our hands would likely be a good way to continue, and b) that the final incarnation of the project would likely be an amalgamation of the members' ideas.

That's our group in the foreground.

We left the meeting at the end of class with a few ideas but plenty of inspiration, and plans to arrange a meeting as well as a CTools site and shared Google calendar so as to coordinate schedules.