Storyboard/Flowchart

 STORYBOARD

FLOWCHART

Week 4

FINALLY GOT THE SCRIPT ALMOST DONE. Used append for most of it.

Naz and shah went to get more materials… a little hiccup in our group cause lijia forgot to bring
some materials today from her house. Thankfully everything was alright after that day and we still
got together.

We fitted the LEDs into the door finally, and it fitted perfectly. Seeing the script run with the LEDs
into the door really gave us a sense of satisfaction. The rest of the day was spent painting and touching up the prototype model, with cute accessories and ornaments along the way.

Later at home we’ll be compiling the storyboard, video, moodboard, flowchart, website and everything together in one folder and get it ready to burn. Oh before that Keith will have to touch up on the interface design as well because it deviated slightly from how the painted prototype looks like now :)

Week 3

Deadline has been postponed!! Its great because we had no idea how to script the stuff out yet. Mr Stephen took time from his scripting class on Monday to show us several scripts that can be applied to the arduino. The use of tweenmax makes it really easy to conceptualize how we want the lightbulbs to fade in and out. At first Keith, was really scared by the ledDir= -ledDir code that Mr Andrew showed us, but later after scripting consultation we began to understand most of the codes and used the easiest one that we can edit to further refine the timing and intensity of the lights. We also began to plan and cut out the door, and drilled 6 holes through the door as well. We also realized we had no design for how the light would look on the door too, and we began to come up with a few designs. Some of them were not really practical because they were too complicated to construct in small scale. Naz also got a lovely acrylic material which looked very much like patterned glass. She also came out with a few design for the lights. Some did not work but some did. We learned a lot on how to choose the right materials and of course having fun discovering new things! Lijia has put together about half the documentary video too.

Moodboard

Week 2

We stayed at lijia’s place overnight 2 nights ago (18th) and have done quite a bit of work. We discussed about whether we should have our lights in a circle, (with the lights trailing round and round like a wheel) or a straight line. After much discussion, we finalized on using it as a straight line because 6 LEDs weren’t enough for form a nice enough circle and our intention was to make a designer light, not a warning light. It was meant to be more decorative + serves another purpose, than distracting.


We shopped quite a bit, heading down to art friend and spotlight over the 2 days trying to look for semi-transparent materials that are suitable to diffuse the light from the LEDs. We also went to ikea  to look at how many lamps use the same type of crumply tracing paper, or semi-opague acrylic to shield off the light.


In the end, we finalized that we needed to find a material that would allow the top 3 lights in our storyboard to flicker, and it has to be able to show the upward motion. Without the visibility of that
there would be no point in doing a script where the red lights flash from bottom to up.


At Lijia’s place Shah also painted a door just to test out the colours and the wood material. It seemed
like we bought an unsuitable material (we replaced it later for a tougher, thicker piece of wood.) Naz worked on the website layout and for Keith, the interface layout.

Scenario/Solution

1.     For the light-on bed, we realized that having a light indicator will show us where our bed is, however anything else could serve the same purpose. Eg, a handphone, or a table lamp. It is therefore not so usable as an idea.

2.     For the fridge, as the arduino still has to be manually programmed, we found that it will not be easy for the user to key in a set amount of stored, new food in the fridge after every new “fridge update”. It would be tedious and tiresome. After consulting with Mr Andrew, we also learned more about human behaviour, and even if the light showed that the fridge had not been updated, maybe people would still naturally gravitate to opening up the fridge. This is an interesting learning and we have more to research and work on this idea. But for now, we dropped it because it would involve much more components like gravity/weight sensors and so on if we were to really develop this idea into a usable product.

3.     We decided on this idea because it was feasible and it does solve the problem. It works 2 way because not only does it allow users OUTSIDE the door to know how the user inside is feeling, it allows the user INSIDE to express himself in the most polite and discreet way.

Week 1

Today we were brainstorming for our idea. It isn’t exactly easy coming up with a designer light, we have 6 light units and our job was to come up with a concept that would utilize all 6 at home.. so we started brainstorming for problems we encountered at home.

1.     After a long day at work, and when its time to turn off the lights to sleep, the bed can’t be seen after the room lights are off. Shah and Nazira came up with an idea to install our lights on the bed so it would be easier to make our way towards the bed in the dark.

2.     All of us have this habit of checking the fridge for no good reason, whenever we’re free or slightly hungry. The problem is, we already know what’s in the fridge because we’ve been checking what’s inside for the whole day, but we STILL want to open the fridge to take a look, hoping for something new to spring out. We realized this is a problem for many people at home too.

3.     All of us have our bad days and desire to shut our doors when we’re at home at times. However, our parents don’t know and barge in unknowingly at times. This gets on our nerves and we wish they would know how angry/pissed we are while we are inside our room.