Day 6 – Go for gold!

At 9:00 am we continued to work on our prototypes. For most groups it was the day of putting things together and testing the software and the interface. Of course this created a bit of chaos. But things turned out to be fine

Group ‘Interactive GeoCaching Box’ worked on the LEDs and the software functions. The prototype flag could already show the right direction.

Group ‘PEO – Personal Energy Orp’ tried a wireless transmittion but it didn’t work out, so they had to find another way to do it.

Group ‘Tom’ build and rebuild their flag and could already present the directions. With the laser cutted acryl glas is already looked wonderful.

Group ‘Energy Fight’ worked on the composition of their box components and started to test the game. The game board was improved by colour codes for the players.

Group ‘Environment Jukebox’ worked on integrating more sensors and building the radio box. The produced music already sounded great.

Group ‘Team Twist’ cutted a lot lot lot of acryl glas and build new sensors. The different levels were implemented.

Day 6: A long day

The last day before the course’s end started.

Some teams had already comleted their protoypes’ main features and thus could concentrate on optimizing them and implementing additional features. Team “Bird hat” surprised with its needlework skills once again and created a wool bobble as input option for their inflatable hat. Teams “Blowfish” and “Ambileon” mainly dealed with their prototypes’ looks.

 

Meanwhile, other teams were busy to complete their prototypes on the whole and were forced to work through a twelve-hour day. Verena, assistant of the course, fortunately agreed to stay until 9:30 pm. During this time, three duplicates of the glow worm prototype were built, and team “Venus flytrap” was able to implement the program logic for their electronic plant.

We were pleased that a little guest visited us and stayed the whole day: Hendriks son came to test some prototypes and so sweetened our stressful day.

The end is near

Oh – what a productive day!

After the third day of our projects, there are just a few hours left to complete our works and to present the results to our lecturers and to other interested people. Therefore, all of us worked really hard and concentrated during that day and we can show you some interesting improvements of the prototypes we are developing.

Group A – Interactive Wardrobe:

Today, we connected almost the whole electronic, our board of buttons and two separates modules. Our problem for that moment is the communication between the two modules that is currently not working.

Group B – Interactive door mat

Today we reached out that all the LEDs are working well. We also wrote our Software for the communication with arduino and the mat. Our current problem is now, that our input method is not working correctly. The output works and the LEDs are blinking but our software doesn’t communicate with the mat.

Group C – Coffee Timer

Today we had our hardware final touch. But the big problem for that moment is, that Processing doesn’t work with our servos and we planed our project with processing. So it will cost us a lot of time to handle that circumstance.

Group D – Robocat

Today we wrote almost the whole software on Processing and we connected the majority of our hardware components. So our cat is already making noise. Our big Problem like in group D: Processing doesn’t support Servos and so we have to use arduino to handle this problem.

Group E – Alarm Clock with Lego

Even though in the morning didn’t work anything, we reached a lot today. We connected two servos to our arduino, created two ways to put the Lego on the alarm clock and fixed our other components to the Lego shell. We just have one problem left: The pieces of Lego don’t have a good connectivity, so sometimes the alarm doesn’t switch off when we have connected all the Lego pieces. But we’ll handle this tomorrow.

Group F – Freetime manager:

The table has a beep function and the lights are blinking and changing colors. But now the display is not working and we have some problems with our blue light. But we are confident to finish the table until tomorrow.