Throughout the long creative process that we have journeyed upon throughout our mission has entailed many photographs documenting this long process. This page is dedicated to displaying the process of our building to provide a better understanding of the many steps taken to complete our final product. We cycled through many different iterations and utilized a wide variety of components before completing the project. All photos included in this page are arranged chronological order for ease of viewing. Additionally, each photo includes a detailed explanation about the step of the project that it depicts. The first two photos explain some of the things that we find very important in our community.
"Honor Above All" is Charlotte Latin School's motto. A plaque like this one on the rests above every doorway, serving as a constant reminder for one of our school's many values. The constant reinforcement of these ideologies to the students of Latin enables them to utilize these skills both inside the classroom and in our local community. Honor Above All is respected by all students at Charlotte Latin School, and this code allows each student to feel comfortable with themselves and voicing their respective ideas and opinions at all times, without fear of backlash from students or teachers. Instead, students and teachers alike support their peers in their work and support their ideas whenever possible.
While Honor Above All is Latin's most important value, the fine institution that provides us with our knowledge and the opportunity to participate in many extracurricular activities believes in many other values as well. The values pictured on the left are visible in every venue of life for students. These values help our student body to persevere, be honest, and help our peers whenever possible. These values have guided us on our eCYBERMISSION journey in varying ways, including trying many different iterations of our project to improve its functionality.
This is an image of the same type of FLORA board we used in our project. The FLORA board is a wearable board that can easily be attached to wearable electronics such as our own project made by our eCybermission team.
This photo depicts the wires after they were soldered to the FLORA board. Those are the wires that are connected to the Velostat.
This is a photo of having the batteries connected to the FLORA board and the circuit receiving the power. As you can tell, the small LED next to the blue alligator clip is turned on.
This a photo of the wall in our FabLab with all sorts of materials ranging from wires and LEDs, to LittleBits, to all types of microchips. This is where we found our FLORA board and the wires. The wall is organized through a spread sheet on the computers below. Students can type in what they are looking for, and if in stock, will be given a number to the corresponding box. To the right of that wall is where students solder.
Pictured below is the final code that we used to run our device off of. The code was written by Legend and was iterated over many times throughout the course of the arduous eCybermission project period. The code works by detecting the amount of pressure placed onto our Velostat sensor, and then there are two if then statements to decide whether or not to turn the LED on or off. It was decided that since the children typically place the pressure on their toes, we wanted the LED to be off when the pressure was on the toes in order to save the most energy possible by keeping the LED off the majority of the time. This code took an immense amount of time for Legend to develop and we believe that it works to the best of its ability. The code could also be edited as the child progresses in their journey of relieving themselves of idiopathic toe walking to keep the light off when more pressure is placed on the heel to save more battery.