Jetha's Graduation Project

Category: Construction

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Construction Supervisor Meetings

Week 20 – Pause in Production

SMART goals for this week

  • Finish circuits
  • Make diagrams for thesis
    • circuit diagrams
    • iteration timelines
  • Make booklet for blog
    • Process for each part

What I did this week

Supervisor Meeting Notes

Thesis

  • Feedback for first draft thesis
    • Remove details of hardware 
    • Beneficiaries
      • Make sure it’s clear how the work addresses them
    • Planning
      • Evaluation of the Moscow and SMART how it helped prioritisation
    • Ideation and conceptual
      • Make clearer of what the process was 
    • Production
      • Make clear what was done and what will be done 
    • Code may not be needed
    • Merge stats and hardware paragraph together
  • Finish circuits film that finish writing and then do housing 

Due to the time left my supervisor advised that I paused production after finishing the circuits to focus on the project report. So, I made some final touches like recutting the racks as there wasn’t enough space for it to slot into it’s holding. Acrylic for the spatial organisation was also cut. I made them slightly bigger than planned to allow for it to be made smaller if need be for the housing construction.

The pause in production was also caused by a delay on Monday as the physical computing lab was closed the whole morning for filming. I was supposed to finish the circuits in the morning and go to the prototyping lab for the housing in the afternoon. But ended up working on finishing the circuits until closing.

I’m going to make a demonstration video with the circuits in case I can’t do the housing before the deadline. So, I also cut out 45cm x 45cm cardboard squares to mount the circuits onto.

I brought all the circuits home so, I could set up the demonstration over the weekend. I spent the rest of the working week on finishing and editing the project report.

I also finalised a design for the hardware symbolisation after all the delays

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Construction Supervisor Meetings

Week 19 – Finishing circuits

SMART goals for this week

  • Solder circuits
  • Laser cut parts
  • Call around for circuit boards
  • 3D print buttons and light tubes
  • First draft of thesis

What I did this week

Supervisor Meeting Notes

Thesis

  • Audience research 
    • Could be merged with beneficiaries 
    • Show in the development what changes were made for the audience
  • Conclusion 
    • The project and its future 
  • Made circuit for spatial organisation
    • The circuit didn’t work I’m not quite sure why.
  • Soldered LED Matrix and circuit
  • Laser cut and tested gear and rack. I think it’s catching because it’s not fixed in place. If it is the gears than the teeth just need to be sanded down a bit more
  • 3D print buttons and light tubes.
    • The buttons need to be sanded and painted but that can happen at the end
  • Got help for the spatial organisation circuit
    • I booked a meeting with Tom who helped me figure out how to make circuit work and made this schematic for me to follow.
  • Handed in round 2 form for the exhibition
  • Make user control circuit
    • soldered LEDs together
  • Got recommended to use servo driver to only use one arduino
  • Couldn’t get code to work together
  • Got old DELL laptop from mum
  • 9V plug didn’t work with solenoids causing them to be a bit faulty when in a certain position but I got a 12V plug
  • Struggled to get a hold of the charity that were going to help me get circuit boards
    • Called my laptop repair guys they have a laptop with no harddrive for £30
  • Undid my old MacBook Pro 2019 laptop
  • Figured out why user control circuit didn’t work
    • the one solenoid that wasn’t work was because it was in a faulty pin on the board
    • Moved LEDs to analog for brighter LEDs
    • Zeyu helped merge code and also showed me how to not use delay
    • the one solenoid stopped working when I put them in the strip board. I think it might be because the breadboard has resistance whereas the strip board doesn’t. Hopefully I just need to add some resistors in the circuit like I did with the spatial organisation
  • I did a draftish of my thesis so I’m up to the production part.
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Construction Supervisor Meetings Technician Meetings

Week 18 – Starting Construction

SMART goals for this week

  • 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.
  • Started soldering spatial organisation
  • Thesis writing
    • I did a draft of the beneficiaries
  • drafting wall text