A second sponser!

To make the installation a bit more appealing we will need to paint it, and if  you are going to paint something you need paint. Luckily i work for a creative entrepreneur and at our workshop we have a lot of spray paint. I asked my boss (Egbert) if he was interested in sponsoring sering…

Working on the database

i have bin working on the database for the last couple of days and it almost works, but i’m having some problems with updating the database. I can’t figure out how to get te changed data/ values back in the  database. I asked some other students who are also working with the same database, but…

Database

The last few days i have bin working on the database, or how we can use it. Through a tip from Boris i checked out Firebase. It is a database that works through Google. Whit Firebase you can create a collection. In this collection you can make multiple id’s. These id’s can have multiple ‘fields/…

Testing the light

Today we are working on the hardware. We are testing what kind of light we can use inside the platforms in the installation. We tried a 10mm LED, but we fond that if you cover the top with a mat piece of plastic, you will see the 3 different colors separated. So this did not…

Paper prototype

The last two days i worked on a paper prototype of the installation. We wanted to know if our idea was doable. One of the things I fond out was that we don’t need a full ring of PVC pipe inside the installation. in the prototype there was a bit of friction when turning the…

Deployment Diagram

As part of the design document we need a deployment diagram. In this document you show what te software running on the hardware is. I sketched the first draft. now i need to make a digital version of the diagram.

Jury pitch

Today we used our onepager to create a sales pitch for the jury. Colene took all our info and made into a nice presentation and I (Jan) pitched the concept with help from the rest of the team. The goal of the jury pitch was to convince the jury of the value behind our concept…

Customer Journey

To get a compleet design document we need to make a customer journey. I took the time to make one. At first I had to look for some reference. In the examples is fond there was a difference in the horizontal and vertical positions. I asked if this was mandatory but apparently it wasn’t. So…

Concept clarification exercise

Since I (Jan) enjoy analysing the way people and/ingroups behave, I took it upon myself to make up a little exercise to help everyone get on the same page regarding our concept. In my experience when working with a group of people, team members can have entirely different views and opinions of the concept at…