Today's lecture (noticed that I start almost every blog with Today, just so you know..) was about Kirchhof's laws and Norton & Tevenin. It is becoming a bit harder to understand every single thing Geert mentions during the lecture.
After the lecture, THomas and I again started making the assignments. The KVL and KCL are okay, but need a lot of calculations. It is really easy to make mistakes during this process and I feel like this does not contribute too much. I do think that the KVL and KCL are useful to have learned, but the Norton and Thevenin is something of whihc I do not see the practical use yet. Maybe it will become more clear during the practical assignments of these chapters. We'll see!
In the afternoon I finished my part of the SDL report as far as I can atm. I also wrote a reflection about this, but it still needs a second look to adjust some things. (as I always do this).
Since the report is coming up, I have also made a start in designing this. I want to make it a real designer like report; making the important stuff to 'jump out of the report' by the way I designed the report and the chapters. No pictures so far, but I will post them when they are there.
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Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Busy busy monday!
28-11
Mondays are not nice, because they are always really busy!
Today started of with a coach meeting with Sam, with the first part being a project meeting in which everybody presented their design documents. Mine, luckily was good enough for the time being, but Bruno had a hard time. It is hard to see this happening to a project mate and I was really doubting if there is something which I needed to say or that I should just let things be.. This does remind me of how important communication is. Being able to tell what you want to tell in a clear overview is a skill which will become of a great importance during a designer's career.
It also reminded me of the unique position of the ID student at the TU/e. The process approach, learning from other students and learning by doing are different from other ID educations, but make this one so strong. One can learn so much from others. I have learned as much from other students and their work as I have learned from assignments and other activities.
The second part of the meeting, was individual. I send an e-mail to Sam on Thursday or Friday last week that I was struggling with what he mentioned as an interaction which was too easy. I did not quite understand what he meant en though that the power of this concept is in the 'simpleness'; if something would be added/changed the focus of the design would be on another interaction in stead of the pouring-interaction. When I talked to him, he luckily said that he did not think my concept was bad, but the story did not add up entirely yet. I need to mention that the product is meant as some sort of ritual, something which needs to be done to respect the action of creating light. He also taught my showcase has a good base now of which I am really glad!
At 12:15 I joined the Educie meeting again, in which we decided to have a brainstorm and settled some unsolved mysteries of the upcoming photoshop workshop.
In the afternoon, I helped Mariette with programming the Arduino. She had not yet seen the Arduino being hooked up to a sensor, so it was the easiest if somebody could help her for a minute. It was not to hard to write the program, but it needed some smoothing. Unfortunately, another meeting was waiting before I could finish this properly, so I left Mariette on her own with the coding.
The third meeting of the day was with Rik about the SDL report. It needs to be finished! So we looked at the last things which need to happen before it is done. Thankfully, it is not that much. It is mainly the final chapter and pasting the appendices from the right documents.
And in the end of the afternoon there was the academic development again. This time it took the lecturer sooo long to make his point that it was really really boring. I have not learned anything at all this time..
Mondays are not nice, because they are always really busy!
Today started of with a coach meeting with Sam, with the first part being a project meeting in which everybody presented their design documents. Mine, luckily was good enough for the time being, but Bruno had a hard time. It is hard to see this happening to a project mate and I was really doubting if there is something which I needed to say or that I should just let things be.. This does remind me of how important communication is. Being able to tell what you want to tell in a clear overview is a skill which will become of a great importance during a designer's career.
It also reminded me of the unique position of the ID student at the TU/e. The process approach, learning from other students and learning by doing are different from other ID educations, but make this one so strong. One can learn so much from others. I have learned as much from other students and their work as I have learned from assignments and other activities.
The second part of the meeting, was individual. I send an e-mail to Sam on Thursday or Friday last week that I was struggling with what he mentioned as an interaction which was too easy. I did not quite understand what he meant en though that the power of this concept is in the 'simpleness'; if something would be added/changed the focus of the design would be on another interaction in stead of the pouring-interaction. When I talked to him, he luckily said that he did not think my concept was bad, but the story did not add up entirely yet. I need to mention that the product is meant as some sort of ritual, something which needs to be done to respect the action of creating light. He also taught my showcase has a good base now of which I am really glad!
At 12:15 I joined the Educie meeting again, in which we decided to have a brainstorm and settled some unsolved mysteries of the upcoming photoshop workshop.
In the afternoon, I helped Mariette with programming the Arduino. She had not yet seen the Arduino being hooked up to a sensor, so it was the easiest if somebody could help her for a minute. It was not to hard to write the program, but it needed some smoothing. Unfortunately, another meeting was waiting before I could finish this properly, so I left Mariette on her own with the coding.
The third meeting of the day was with Rik about the SDL report. It needs to be finished! So we looked at the last things which need to happen before it is done. Thankfully, it is not that much. It is mainly the final chapter and pasting the appendices from the right documents.
And in the end of the afternoon there was the academic development again. This time it took the lecturer sooo long to make his point that it was really really boring. I have not learned anything at all this time..
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
The end of the week
24-11
Today I made the final details on the design document. I am quite pleased with the result, but there are some things which need some adjustment. After discussing it with the group and with Sam, I will probably know what needs to be changed.
I also started writing down a user test in which I will test my theory about the activation of the conscious mind about subconscious actions.
At the end of the day I worked some more on my showcase, making the present page and the default overview for assignments and other activities.
25-11
After making a start with the user test, this needs to be documented properly and some questions have to be thought, which is an activity I performed today.
Of course, something has to go wrong! In my case, its the technology. When I talked to Geert van den Bomen, to get a new sensor because the one I had gotten was broken, he said that it is not usable at all as a pressure sensor. All this time 'waisted' at the piezo sensors, that is not really fun! Luckily, Edwin had a very good idea. If I turn a mouse upside down and hook it up to Processing, than I can track the movement of the bowl with that mouse. A quick try made sure that this would work, with some adjustments of course. Next week, more technology and user testing!
25-11
After making a start with the user test, this needs to be documented properly and some questions have to be thought, which is an activity I performed today.
Of course, something has to go wrong! In my case, its the technology. When I talked to Geert van den Bomen, to get a new sensor because the one I had gotten was broken, he said that it is not usable at all as a pressure sensor. All this time 'waisted' at the piezo sensors, that is not really fun! Luckily, Edwin had a very good idea. If I turn a mouse upside down and hook it up to Processing, than I can track the movement of the bowl with that mouse. A quick try made sure that this would work, with some adjustments of course. Next week, more technology and user testing!
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Designing a design document
21-11
It was Jelmer’s birthday. I also picked up the design document, which is basically also a good start of the report, so I took the time to create some nice visuals for this as well. It became clear that I have still got some work to do about the theory of my concept. I made my own theory about the activation of the conscious mind. It is an easy theory, but nonetheless important. It says that when one performs an subconscious action consciously (turning on the light in this case) , this person will also think more about other unconscious actions (i.e. opening the door, taking a chair to sit on). There will probably be research about this subject, but I want to investigate this myself. Later on in the week I will develop a user test for this purpose.
The visual:
I’ve also been to my second academic development class, which still is interesting. As a preparation, we needed do read two articles. It kind of surprised me that the exact same things were being said in the lecture, it kind of felt as if I had read it for nothing. Of course, one remembers it better when he or she sees it two times. At this point, I have the feeling that it will be too hard to make the essay. It is about showing that a subject is or is not a pseudo-science. It is ‘merely’ looking at criteria and explaining why this science fits this criteria of science of why it does not.
Monday, 21 November 2011
Wednesday, PCB factory; report
16-11
Today on the program, continuing the report of the clock project and visiting a PCB factory, to see how they are made in the industry.
In the morning Rik and I made new text and images for the report. We really need to finish this, because other deadlines are coming up and it will be withholding us from those activities.
In the afternoon we travelled to a printing company near Helmond called V-PS. There we talked to a technician, who was kind enough to give us a tour in the factory and tell us something about the manufacturing process. This nice to see once, it made me realize that we are busy creating products which are produced in bulk, for the industry. It reminded me of the documentary 'The genius of design' which I saw during the SDL-weeks. The episode I had in mind was about the history of mass production. Really inspiring series!
Unfortunately this tour lasted for the entire afternoon, which was pretty long. Upside, Rik will get a discount on the ordering of the PCB.
In the afternoon I helped Wendy making a program in Processing. She wanted a little program that would let the mouse scare of little balls (like herding a pack of sheep). It was a nice way to see if I still understood the program and its Syntax and a way to explain the basics to Wendy. Here is the result, the problem is that it works on the x and y coordinates, which creates a rectangular hit-plane. For a natural result it should be an circular hit-plane. Since I made this in about two hours, I was pretty happy with the result!
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Last part SDL weeks
03-11
Let's start with the remainder of the SDL weeks. On Thursday we tried to find out how big the damage actually was. Rik did this by measuring the resistance of the tracks with a multi-meter. There were quite a few tracks which were not destroyed, which gave us hope. Considering the time we had left (this day and the Friday) we decided that we would only create the inner circle (which contained of 20 LED's) to give a proof of concept. Of course, this also did not go as fast as we had hoped. We got all the different components in and connections were made between the resistors and the LED's.
04-11
On Friday, Rik continued to work on connecting the components, as I started making the report. Rik's got more and more frustrated, as the soldering was nearly impossible (it did not attach properly and it is extremely small). At a given moments, it was obvious that the PCB was just not made properly enough to make it work.
That is when we decide to work on the report for the rest of the day. The option of ordering the PCB were still open and will probably happen as well. The report will be as short as possible, with visuals supporting the different phases of the process. There will be little text in there, which will be quite a challenge for me. A small preview:
Pictures of the bare PCB:
Let's start with the remainder of the SDL weeks. On Thursday we tried to find out how big the damage actually was. Rik did this by measuring the resistance of the tracks with a multi-meter. There were quite a few tracks which were not destroyed, which gave us hope. Considering the time we had left (this day and the Friday) we decided that we would only create the inner circle (which contained of 20 LED's) to give a proof of concept. Of course, this also did not go as fast as we had hoped. We got all the different components in and connections were made between the resistors and the LED's.
04-11
On Friday, Rik continued to work on connecting the components, as I started making the report. Rik's got more and more frustrated, as the soldering was nearly impossible (it did not attach properly and it is extremely small). At a given moments, it was obvious that the PCB was just not made properly enough to make it work.
That is when we decide to work on the report for the rest of the day. The option of ordering the PCB were still open and will probably happen as well. The report will be as short as possible, with visuals supporting the different phases of the process. There will be little text in there, which will be quite a challenge for me. A small preview:
Pictures of the bare PCB:
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Time flies... DG505
Just found out that it has been such a long time since I properly wrote something down. The midterm and assignment deadline, the reporter bootcamp and the Dutch Design Week (DDW) have taken a lot of time. From now on, I will maintain my blog better and will document the activities of the past weeks as well
DG505:
Making a report, while organizing a reporter bootcamp does not really fit together, but thanks to the dedicated committee it became very feasible. After I gave a warm welcome to the bootcampers, I immediately went to the meeting to create the final report. In the weekend I had already prepared my parts of the work, which resulted in a good thing; finishing my work quickly! This way, I could continue my support at the bootcamp sooner than expected. In hindsight, I think the team worked good all together, but sometimes a bit inefficient. I want to thank the guys for the dedication once more.
The final report can be found at: http://www.student.tue.nl/Y/R.Bootsman/Jesse/FinalReportDG505.pdf
My reflection at: http://www.student.tue.nl/Y/R.Bootsman/Jesse/FinalReflectionDG505.pdf
I put the files on the W-drive of Rik, because my computer denied my existence (notebook service centre fixed it in 5 minutes).
Several hours ago I received my first official feedback of this semester! I must say that it is pretty good. my understanding of the models themselves and how they are used is good. Everything which the assigner marked (in competencies and process) is marked as substantially. It is this sentence which makes me proud: 'Has acquired good insight in the use & integration of the models in the context of business decisions'. This is the reason why I signed up for the assignment; getting a more realistic approach on business and the influence of cost. There is (luckily) also something which can be improved; the translation of the plan into the number, still is vague sometimes. Next time, when I use these models and skills I have gained, I will try to make a better overview of the 'cost-translation'.
DG505:
Making a report, while organizing a reporter bootcamp does not really fit together, but thanks to the dedicated committee it became very feasible. After I gave a warm welcome to the bootcampers, I immediately went to the meeting to create the final report. In the weekend I had already prepared my parts of the work, which resulted in a good thing; finishing my work quickly! This way, I could continue my support at the bootcamp sooner than expected. In hindsight, I think the team worked good all together, but sometimes a bit inefficient. I want to thank the guys for the dedication once more.
The final report can be found at: http://www.student.tue.nl/Y/R.Bootsman/Jesse/FinalReportDG505.pdf
My reflection at: http://www.student.tue.nl/Y/R.Bootsman/Jesse/FinalReflectionDG505.pdf
I put the files on the W-drive of Rik, because my computer denied my existence (notebook service centre fixed it in 5 minutes).
Several hours ago I received my first official feedback of this semester! I must say that it is pretty good. my understanding of the models themselves and how they are used is good. Everything which the assigner marked (in competencies and process) is marked as substantially. It is this sentence which makes me proud: 'Has acquired good insight in the use & integration of the models in the context of business decisions'. This is the reason why I signed up for the assignment; getting a more realistic approach on business and the influence of cost. There is (luckily) also something which can be improved; the translation of the plan into the number, still is vague sometimes. Next time, when I use these models and skills I have gained, I will try to make a better overview of the 'cost-translation'.
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