Today we met in the Dude to start planning our final project. The general schedule we were given asked for a $200 budget and an operational prototype for Thursday, and per Karl’s morning email we started small (he said to stick to what works and design based on functionality). We laid out and listed all of our new toys that had come in the mail and used those as a jumping-off point for what our product could become. This was marginally successful, and we ended the meeting by assigning each member of the group who was capable two of our new sensors/components to wire and code: Simon had the force-sensitive resistors and the camera, Chris had the solenoids and the Temperature/Humidity sensors, Patrick had the Ultrasonic Range Finder and the microphones, and I had the accelerometers and data logger.
Our brainstorming focused on the interactions we wanted users to have with our project based on what we could accomplish with our newly acquired sensors. Simon wanted something ambient- ideally the users would be unaware of the product’s presence until a response from the surface is provoked. We also talked about trying to incorporate our previous design (the triangles of project one) into this surface, or at the very least a folding/revealing mechanism.
I went to DL1 and assembled the data logger according to the instructions online. This took a while and I accidentally burned my finger but I was able to finish it before my ride had to leave. I didn’t get to code anything for it, but tomorrow I should be able to take care of both that and the accelerometer. I feel optimistic that we can make a pretty cool (and functional) prototype this week, and look forward to finding out how this project evolves.
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