Week Summary:

OK SO....

I’m going to affectionately refer to this week as “the lost week.” 

It’s not so much “lost” as it’s truly an exercise in seeing what happens when you just let experimentation guide your project. 

This is very different than last cycle when we were pretty dead set on our concepts and ideas from quite early on.  

After we presented last week there was a lot of great feedback but namely we walked away feeling less sure of what we wanted to do. 

Alexa suggested that we could not solve that problem yet... we had a lot of ideas and great directions to move forward with, and by simply working / experimenting with our various sensors things might become clearer.  

Time spent with Sitraka really helped us solve some issues w/ the radio frequencies triggering multiple LEDs so that was cool, regardless of where we go from here it felt like a victory. 

Similarly I started a process of building my own sensor (a flex sensor).

Below check out how this week went down for us... a lot of head scratching for IDM. 

Scroll down for some outside research.

God bless Sitraka. 

He spent a lot of time with us (namely KP) working out how to get the Arduinos to communicate a particular task over radio frequency. (triggering specific LED lights, according to their respective buttons, in order to make our headset work!) 

While that was going on, Richard, Yifei and myself were working out some Arduino glitches, and trying to build our first DIY sensor, and having that sensor trigger an audio response. 
Check out the flex sensor w/ audio here!

KP and I had a chance to sit down later that week together and just TALK. Talk through what we’ve accomplished already, what our original goals were, what’s changed...what we’d be willing to give up, what we’d like to move forward with. 

It felt like there were so many ideas we needed to start combing through and weeding out which were the most important to us, and which addressed the brief the best. 

A couple of days later, KP Richard and myself were able to get together again and discuss further.

We were all sort of feeling adrift...excited about some things, not so much about others, and unsure as to what was coming next. 

As we chatted at one point I said “wouldn’t it be great if we just had a giant Arduino we could all work on?” It was in response to some obnoxious troubleshooting we’d just been doing on not being able to get one of the sensors working.