Week 13

This week was our last week to be able to talk to all the tutors in a normal tutorial format. I think we had made some good progress since last week. I had done up a good chunk of the storyboard and Georgina had modelled up on the ball on solid works. It was good that we had these things done so we could get some feedback on them, but we are also able to use them for the final presentation so its good to get them done early so that we have less things to worry about closer to the due date.

First off we had a quick chat with Leonardo. We didn't have much to discuss with him  so he left us so we could continue working.

We worked on planning the internal components of the product. The required components are;
Motor
Battery
Off centred weight
LED's

For the lights, Brenden suggested using fibre-optics which I think is a good idea. It's very helpful for our team that Brenden knows a fair bit about this stuff so he can see all the ideas realistically and help us all understand how things work. We managed to spatially plan all the internals to fit within the product (15mm diameter).

After this we went through the planning of each; product, behaviour and scenario, and how we would be communicating these in the final presentation.
Product- Form model, solid works model, technical drawings, BOM
Behaviour-
Scenario-
Here was were I started to get a bit confused. I was having difficulties in separating behaviour and scenario. and i wasn't sure which one my storyboard was communicating. So we went and talked to Marienella and Leonardo. Marienella made things much clearer. They can be communicated in the same format or separately. One of them (now I can't even remember which! scenario or behaviour??) is a step by step process of how the product works. Every single action that must take place in order for it to do what it is meant to do. Where as the other one, (scenario?) is more about the user. Why the product is  important to the user and what impact does it have or what experience it offers. So we have decided to show this one through video. I think this will communicate it much more effectively than images and will be able to capture the experience more.