Express

Envision

Physical fabrication

Giving and recieving feedback

The project that I developed the most was based on a memory my client Lloyd had about his mom having a bike accident. The way Lloyd chose to represent this is by making a bike going around a lumpy wheel that had broken spokes and a lightbulb in the center. The bike on the lumpy wheel represented before the accident, the spokes represented the accident itself, and the lightbulb represented new beginnings and hope. I tried to make my version more abstract. My version has four tiles moving up and down in a wavelike pattern controlled by cams. This represents the usual flow of life; then the tiles start moving more jaggedly, and the tiles shake, but then the tiles start smoothing out back into a smaller pattern to the wave but different. This represents new hope or new beginnings.

In this studio, I think I did a good job of expressing what I wanted to through my final prototype, partially because this was based on a somewhat important memory; I didn't want to mess it up. I also think I did a good job with physical fabrication because I managed to have the electronics in the back and had a laser-cut wood back, along with the fact that I got complimented on the level of fidelity I got to, given the amount of time I had during my presentation. I also think I got better at incorporating feedback during my mid-review and conversations with my client because that's where I finalized my ideas for the cam mechanism. In this studio, I did a lot of planning before I could get to actually making my final prototype because of how big it was going to be and how the cams were going to have to be placed, and I think I got better at envisioning these before making them as previously I had done more go-with-the-flow work. During this studio I also learned how to use Arduino and got to solder and use motors.