Week 4 - Journal

This week we did not have any assignments, we were asked to finalise what we had left from last weeks' assignments and update our journals. We also had to finalise our final project ideas and answer the questions in the journal.

In this week's lecture, we had a project review session, a discussion about what we like that we have done so far and what we want to improve in ourselves moving forward, and we had lecture about different components that we could include in our final project.

This session was a detailed feedback session on our final project ideas with reviewing what we put in our proposal. The feedback I took from Sherif and Esraa was extremely helpful as it helped me visualise and understand several aspects of the project that I did not fully grasp which made it much easier for me to answer the questions and make the prototype.

During this session we had feedback on our proposal (question 4,5,6) and we had to build our prototype. We were given cardboard, scissors, cutter, pencils, and glue to make our prototype in 30 mins.

I started by asking about the dimensions of the Arduino in order to know the width of my strips. Merit had already searched for it and told me that it was about 6x7 cm. Then, Ghazaly made cardboard rectangles (the rectangle with "Ard" written on it) with the dimensions of the Arduino for Merit and I to make it easier for us to visualise the product.

Since I wanted to mimic the function of the mirrors in my prototype, I brought reflective paper with me to the session to be able to see the prototype working as it would. I then cut the reflective paper into rectangles with the same dimensions as my cardboard strips and stuck everything together using hot glue. Then I cut a triangle with a hole in it to make it easier for the user to direct their focus on the pattern.

In this session, we decided that we will all take pictures of each other whille working to help with the documentation.