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After making our build water resistant with black electrical tape, we moved to the Hex Box to hang up the LEDs for user testing. For user testing we had two versions of the code that we wanted to evaluate. We were initially unclear as to what components would feel intuitive to users but also had…

This week we aimed to build our concept to a standard appropriate for testing next week. We built the rainstick, successfully tested the housing for waterproofing, successfully housed the electronic components, and achieved communication between the controller and LED’s. During this build session, we also got some impromptu feedback from team 7. Whilst they understood…

We have finally come up with a suitable name for our installation, Moments of Rain. We saw this as an appropriate name as we felt it was in line with our desire to provide users, specifically students at the MHB, with just a moment of escape. Over the past week, our concept has been realised…

Since the last update, we’ve detailed the first version of our concepts interaction and technical design. As shown in the GIF above, the interaction with the rain stick consists of a few states. These states are dictated by a gyroscope sensor that is housed inside the rainstick and communicates via WiFi to a processing sketch….

Our concept up to this point has seen a number of changes. After discussing the viability of using a projector for our installation we produced a decision matrix with 3 concepts to clarify the best direction we can take. The three concepts we focused on were: Concept 1 – LED strips inside Hex Box cavities…

Our concept to this point has focused on creating a play experience with the use of a projector in various ways. This week we tested out a standard throw projector with 3000 lumens (Casio XJ-A257) on the Hex Box structure, and some challenges became clear. Regular projectors do not cover much of the Hex Box…

As you may already know, we lost a team member in week 4 of the semester. Below is the updated team charter (fairly overdue). Everything else has remained the same as we feel we are working well together under our current work ethic.

In this weeks session we decided to elaborate on the design concepts we came up with from last week. We initially realised that we may have bitten off more than we could chew for our initial design concepts. A main concern was that there was too much for us to learn in such a short…

After completing a milestone in the project, we felt it would be appropriate to hold a team retrospective activity to gain an understanding of how the team worked over the past iteration and uncover any ways we could improve ourselves. The technique employed for this activity was the 4 L’s: Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed…