a lot more than stress and productivity

Tonight has been the most fun and the most productive night I have taken part in this semester. I have been learning from my peers to CALM down and stress slightly less, which has been a huge development, both for my sanity and for my effectiveness. I have come to the conclusion that we all care about the project and no one is going to let it fail (at least without giving it all they can), and this makes me confident. Our group had some issues from day one, and have made slow progress. Our ideas were very broad, there was an overflow of different ways to solve the same problem, while the problem continued to change, leaving everyone, often very confused. Our communication got much better by the second week and things did become together.

We decided to build our prototype using air instead of water, however, water is not to be forgotten when discussing further applications. We wanted to transform a 2D surface into a 3D form in accordance to the amount of sunlight available. When the LDR senses a lot of light, the bubbles will begin to inflate, focusing the light in order to increase temperature. When the flex sensor finds that the bubble is completely inflated, the input will turn off. Ideally we could replace this with a sensor testing for temperature, and once the water reached a high enough temperature, it would be released and circulated through the building- or where ever these cells were placed. It works similarly, with minor differences when substituting air for water, etc.














Although by last night, we probably all should have been extremely stressed out (or I thought thats how I should feel), everyone was extremely laid back and in good spirits. We laughed a lot and worked really well together until we were all pleased, and we could confidently say goodnight, wander to the dud, and get in a crowded BUT FREE cab home.