This week we had a the Test-Protocol assignment. Each team designed a series of procedures and plans to conduct its project. At first, I was a little bit lost about this assignment. After I look through the documents shared on the assignment’s page, I had more understanding and clue to this assignment. By reading through other team’s test protocol, I was also inspired and add more details to the protocol of our team.
On Tuesday, our class started with the presentation of a guest speaker from iVenture. Through her speech, I realized that there is a thing called iVenture which encourage and support students to begin their startups. I found it’s a really great opportunity for students to make some of their prototypes come to a real product which can be put into the market. I asked for the guest speaker’s contact information after class, and I will reach out to her and learn more about this great opportunity.
Later on, we have the chance to update our project with the mentors from milestone lab. We tell them about our progress after last time we met them. They also provided us some ideas that help us further to our next step. Since there are lots of different movements when we hold different tools to reach different goals, mentors told us to currently focus on how to hold a fork with the gloves at this current stage. After we reach the goal of using fork to eat, we should move to the next stage which aims to focus on more purposes.
Move to the next stage, professor asked us to discuss about some materials that we might use at the Make-A-Thon. After discussing with my teammates, we came up with some ideas. However, later on we found out that it was really hard to determine the amount of materials that we might need, since we were not too sure about what we really need and we didn’t want to waste money to buy some useless materials. Then we did some research and came up with a few materials. We also can utilize materials in Fablab during the Make-A-Thon. Speaking of the Make-A-Thon, we will also have a member who’s from the class held by Fablab. Hopefully, he’ll also join our team and try to figure out how are we going to start making our product. I hope every team can contribute to their projects and good luck to everyone!
Hey Eric,
Thanks for making a post. You did a really great job of capturing what we did in class this week! My team too had some trouble calculating the exact amount of material we needed for Make-a-Thon. We ended up just making sure we go enough so we could fail a couple of times and make some great designs.