Week 0 - Journal

Ideation

Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you? (Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)

The final result

My assignment for this week was to make a low fidelity prototype for a smart pet feeder using cardboard according to the following parameters:

Size in real life. "Dimensions"
User interface. "Usability"
Mechanisms. "complexity"

Tool Chain

Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?

We have used the following tools:

Scissors and cutter "for cutting cardboard"
pencil, ruler, and compass "for drawing"
hot glue "for assembly"

Tools we used

Design/Preparation Process

Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?

Result of brainstorming

We spend the first 15 minutes brainstorming and we prepared the final layout of the project and then we have divided roles between us, I was responsible for the user interface and mechanisms while Farida was responsible for the design and, both of us participated in assembling of the project.

Development/Implementation Process

Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?

Firstly, we started by setting all of the dimensions for parts of the project then we started to cutting cardboard according to our dimensions. After that l started to build a mechanism while Farida was working on the design of the interface.

Title of Media

Community of Learning

Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?

Yes we did, they suggested making the size of the project more biggest and more stable until the pets don't mess with it or fall it down.

Overcoming Challenges

When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this assignment?

When we were working on the dimensions of the project we had to research that also during determining the amount of food we researched about the daily needs of food for pets according to their weight.

Pet feeder dimensions

Final Project

How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?

Solar tracking system using cardboard

I can use the cardboard for making a low fidelity prototype showing my idea as shown in the picture.

WOW!

What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?

The thing I will never forget is that any prototype has to take into consideration the following parameters:

Dimensions
Usability
Mechanisms

Weekly Digest [OPTIONAL]

Tell us about any other cool things that you've made this week: in the Hands-on activity, tutorial examples, exercises, or any other cool mini-project that you tried out aside from the assignment.