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annakorczak · 4 years

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Week 3 (01.02 - 05.02)

Yay, this week we finally decided on what our design idea is and it makes me feel great, because I have an impression that we have finally stopped to wander blind in the fog and have something concrete to work on.

Monday, 01.02

After today’s crit session, we decided to continue our work with ‘shake my leaves’ idea, which is creating an experience of plant moving in order to communicate with its owner. It combines two ideas:

- showing plants need by motion

- strengthen the communication by adding the need of interaction

How can the use of motion and the need of interaction strengthen the communication between the person and its plant?

Wednesday, 03.02

We started with brainstorming over various kinds of movement. We were writing down everything that came to our minds in terms of movement. Then, we were trying to distribute various movements to the needs and moods a plant could have. I really liked this part, the work went smooth.

We were talking a lot about the possibilities we have. In the end, we decided that each of us would prototype the specific kind of movement on their own and share it during our Friday’s group work. This would let us actually see how the stems and leaves behave during the movements. We already knew that we were aiming to achieve some natural moves, based on turning to the sun, wind blowing or raindrops falling, as well as more alarming moves, like bouncing and vibrating.

I felt like working with natural moves and I visualized this kind of tilting-rotating movement to fake them. I only needed a half-sphere object to put a pot on it and tilt it and move it along short paths all around the object.

VIDEO 1

Friday, 05.02

On Friday, we were preparing to our crit session. We were writing down what we don’t know about our project, materials, technical aspects. We also designed a test in a form of an interview with participants. We wanted to test how people would start an interaction with a plant and what would they expect as a response.

Material: Person, Plant

Test 1: What would be the natural way for people to start an interaction with a plant?

Test situation 1: Tell the person that the plant can interact with you but you need to start the interaction.

Q1: How do you think you should start the interaction?

Q2: What do you think the plant reaction would be?

Test 2: What would be the natural way for people to start an interaction with a plant if the way of communication is through motion/movement.

Test situation 2: Tell the person that the plant can interact with you but you need to start the interaction with a movement.

Q1: How do you think you should start the interaction?

Q2: What do you think the plant reaction would be?

Moreover, I also gave a second thought to the tilting-rotating movement I was working on earlier. I talked to my sambo, who is a mechanical design engineer and we brainstormed a little. I decided that I will change the movement so the pot doesn’t follow any path all over the half-sphere, but instead, it stays in place and is able to tilt to sides. The effect should be very similar, but the construction and prototyping possibilities seem to be more accessible and feasible.

VIDEO 2

I am really happy we now have a specific project and ideas to work on. Something is starting to emerge from the fog and it is really exciting. I am looking forward to our crit session on Monday.

Microcontrollers workshops

This week we also had Arduino workshops. Before ordering my Arduino kit, I didn’t really know what that was, although the name itself sounded familiar. I had never been into electronics and programming before the program started, but I somehow knew that I would enjoy the workshops and I was right! I had so much fun playing with the Arduino kit, joining cables and just making it work. I found out what the possibilities here are and I even had some ideas how we can use it while building our prototype.

During the second Arduino workshop, I got a little help from my sambo and I managed to create a quite nice prototype of Super Mario game controls, using the Arduino kit, some cardboard, plastic tape and copper tape. I struggled with adjusting the code, but it seemed pretty similar to Java Script. It took me around an hour of trying and I figured it out. I was really pleased with the effect and I noticed that I have possessed this magical way of programming-thinking. But a lot is ahead of me when it comes to programming.

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intellaeducation · 4 years

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