Week 8: Back to the Fablab

Last week, we continued our journey in Fablab. We kept the original group and switch session. Since I was in the watch face design group in the first week, I was in the circuit design group last week. We were given some parts of the circuit and learned how to assemble them together to make the whole circuit work. I wasn’t really familiar with the circuit, since I didn’t learn too much knowledge of physics back in high school. Luckily, the whole procedure is not too complicated, I finally made it work. I wouldn’t imagine that I would have chance to learn such knowledge in college, since this is related to physics or engineering field. I found the circuit design is also a crucial part for students with different majors, because with this knowledge people can design some electronic products but not limited to simple ones. However, learning one class is far not enough, I will probably do more research and try to learn more knowledge in this field.

Later, we have some time discussing about our product and prototype. Since I wasn’t be bale to attend an interview and a meeting with professor last weekend, my teammate told me about something they discussed with the professor and they decided to focus on designing a thing that can help wheelchair-user to grab things independently. Therefore, we talked about how to redesign our prototype and which material we can use.

I also started filming the video for BADM357, since I registered for the video project instead of the weekly summary. I filmed some footage about teams discussing with mentor, students asking question to instructors, and the great time of having pizza! Just incase you don’t feel good about being filmed, please feel free to let me know. Please keep doing what you’re doing when you find I’m filming you, I just want to make the footages look more smooth, or also you can look at the camera and say hi to the future students. Thank you guys for understanding!

Finally, we had chance talking about our updated ideas and the progress we made so far to the mentors from milestone lab. The mentors are satisfied with our ideas, and they also provide us some advice related to the material and what we need to think about for future steps. They also suggested us thinking about the flexibility that our customers may want and how the real product work in reality. For the next move, I think we need to make a workable prototype to testify our ideas. We should think about the different degrees of some objects that can be held in our gloves and see how it works. For the next week, we’ll focus on making our prototype and conducting more interview with our prototype and see how well it works and where we can improve it.