Summary Post 2 - Alex Cracraft

Summary Post 2 - Alex Cracraft

Alex Cracraft

During the winter season, foot traffic and business slows in Boston. Our goal is to help bring people outside. Our project, Pathway Tunnel, inspires and reveals an unexpected surprise. 

We began with the same arch design as before, but after our mid review, we explored other options. First, we switched our design from arches to hexagons. We rotated them to attempt to create the illusion of the hexagons rotating, but it didn't turn out as perfectly as we'd hoped. Pentagons may have worked better. We also switched from hand soldering every LED together to LED strips. This also allows us complex patterns with the strips. 

Our decisions didn't really change our thesis. We just used the coaches' feedback to improve our design and better support our thesis. Scaling the strip design is proved to be challenging. We had the correct code, and what seemed to be the correct wiring, but I had the wires trying to send a signal in the wrong direction. I soldered the jumpers onto the correct side, and it fixed it. We'll be installing the second strip on Monday.