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Kalala Kiwanuka-Woernle

On Friday, we began the day coming up with three ideas and making prototypes of them out of paper. Our ideas were headphones that would tell you about the city while you rode the bus, a helmet that would tell you information about the city and make it more comfortable to lean against the window (we also made a pillow version), and a map of the city that went all around the perimeter of the top of the bus. We ended up choosing the headrest/ pillow because we felt we would be able to apply our new skills like sewing and making sensors. After, we made another prototype out of duck tape because we felt it would be easier to mold. We attached it to the chair to get an idea of how we would attach the pillow in the bus and made another model this time out of clay. We finished the day making pressure sensors with the felt and the fibre-optic thread. I'm looking forward to working even more on the project and see what else will happen.