Start construction whether it’s circuits or housing
Write beneficiaries
Write draft of wall text
What I did this week
Supervisor Meeting Notes
Thesis
Detailed Blog, Thesis summarises
Literature Review
Reason for choosing medium by excluding another medium
doesn’t need to be back up by evidence
Inspiration for the piece
50% research 50% process
Iterations
Whole piece
and document the individual in the blog
Financial reasons for doing things a certain way is fine
Separate weekly posts and extra detail
laser cut test gears for user control slider and trackpad mechanism out of acrylic.
Meeting with Alex
Alex is the prototyping technician. We went over some of my designs and he said that I would need to make the circuits first before making the housing for them to go in. I’m thinking of making one circuit and housing at a time.
Meeting with Sarah
Had a meeting about the exhibition. They need to see pictures of what’s been made, a draft of the wall text and be notified of any changes that have been made. I wasn’t expecting this I was hoping to work on my thesis writing over the weekend.
buy hamster wheels, solenoids
I had to buy an extra solenoid as CCI didn’t have anymore available. I also bought the hamster wheels. They look good, i’ll need to ask Alex what the best way to fix them to the servos.
test button 3d printing
I did a test of the button cap for the user control box. the hole that the solenoid is supposed to go through doesn’t fit. So I’ll have to make it bigger in the model before printing again.
bought the acrylic
I decided on the fluorescents as they let light pass through them the best and the colours worked nicely together. The red and orange are quite similar. But I’ll use them for the smallest panels as they’re on either side of the piece so I’m hoping they’ll look different enough if they’re not next to one another.
I also bought 2 sheets of clear frosted for light diffusing the spatial organisation box and interface re-mediation.
