Kom hjem! Et semester om tilhørighet

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ONSDAG 17. AUGUST 2016

Da er vi i gang med en nytt semester ved AHO. Mandagen kom første oppgave, den er idag gjennomført og vi er fornøyd med resultatet. Nytt semester betyr nye lærer. Nye tider for å bli kjent, men ikke minst metodene det gjøres på! Design en tjeneste som lar lærere bli kjent med elevene. 

Opplegget bærer preg av ulike aktiviteter som representeres av mindre grupper. Det vil foregå en rullering som vil lede brukerne innom hver av postene. De vil bli guidet til neste post for å unngå usikkerhet og dødtid. Valgene som er tatt er gjort med brukerinnsikt vi har tilegnet oss i denne prosessen. Aktivitetene er en kombinasjon av øvelser som øker blodsirkulasjon til øvelser som krever mer konsentrasjon. Et utvalg av aktiviteter er gjort for å gjøre hele tjenesten mindre statisk. 

Bilde 1 viser en struktur over hvordan tjenesten skal gjennomføres i praktisk. 

Bilde 2 viser vår gjennomgang der vi diskuterer i plenum hva som gikk bra, samtidig hva man kanskje burde huske på. 

Touchpoints: Tekstmelding, pute, servering, guiding. 

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Here is the final code including the servo for opening the shield underneath the ice. I basically added the shield just to prevent the user from pulling the fish straight up instead of actually fishing it like i wanted. 

Under I´ve drawn up a sort of storyboard of how i want the interaction to develop from start to it`s end. 

Underneath i´m using the final interaction. I´m really pleased with the result and that I actually stuck to my fishy idea, that I really started questioning after i started it.

Back to the beginning i really wanted to create an experience that already exist and I figured I actually managed to recreate the ice fishing scenario and put it in a different common environment. I enjoyed working with this project because it took me so many places of prototyping and figuring out things in different ways that i probably would have slipped if i did´nt put myself in this fishy “situation”.

The Icefishingsimulator gives you the whole experience without stretching so far. You´ll even get a fish! Try to hook the fish when It tugs on the line. If the rod is flexed as much as needed you got the fish hooked. In a few seconds the hatch will open underneath and the fish will come wriggling out of the water. Slightly brutally but you can even wait for for it to die like the interaction itself or you could hit it hard like you normally would.

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Started same day making the final fishing rod. To make the reel i needed to be a little creative, so I figured I rigged up my own shaper by using some clamps and a dremmel. 

Mounted the modified crab fishing rod into my own rod. Drilled some holes trough the end to get my 5V and my signal wire. Really took some time to get all the wires trough the rod on the inside, but that´s what´s looked best. I like turning both wood and different foam, cause the results are getting as intended. 

Here is the final fish. Powdercoated it to get the surface a little grainy. Some coding coming up!

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Prototyping further

After solving the issues on the flex sensor and how it should react on my given force, i brought some good stuff from the rods that I`ve already been completing. I figured it would be a whole lot easier to just get a rod out of glass-fiber that would bend and not get bent permanently. The green one that i got here is just a cheap crab fishing rod that I´ve did some modification with to get what i wanted. Quick prototype out of white styrofoam just to get some perspective on things. Did not work to good though, cause the material itself is way to light and i probably need some weight in the fishtail to get the right kind of movement that i want.

Progressing in the right direction by creating a fish in the green cibafoam and putting some weight in the tail of the fish. Tried multiple numbers but 50g worked out best creating the wriggling effect. Here you can se the dc motor placed inside the body before I did some quick soldering of the motor itself. I connected the fishtail directly to the dc driveshaft by using 6mm sturdy rubber bands. Some double component epoxy glue and a heatshrink to hold it in place. 

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This is the other rod were I´m experimenting with a stiff rod and a sandwhich contruction to get better readings from the flexsensor. Working pretty good, but it´s hard to get it goodlooking, and in this construction the top acrylic piece will get stretched when the rod is bent, which will cause a rapture in the the link between my GND and 5V wires and the flexsensor itself. I´m thinking of replacing the acrylic pieces with something that´s behaves better when being bent the way i want. Rubber coming up! 

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Further on i needed to make some new fishingrods to give me some proper readings from my flex sensor. The one underneath i´ve implemented the flexsensor in the handle itself to se what kind of readings i would get when flexed or not. Did not give me to much as the density of the cibafoam is way to high to be flexed when the diameter of the handle was at it´s most reasonable for actually holding it like a fishingrod. 

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So i´ve been working on the ice. Working out of a harder variant of styrofoam to get a icy finish. 

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Some sketches and ideas for the icefishinteraction. Started making some storyboards for how the interaction is going to work, but in the same way for the code for each sensor. Need to look into the code for sure to try and create a replica of a fish stuck tugging on your hook and what will happen at what time... 

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After discarding many of my earlier ideas, i´ve started to get to somewhere i can make something pretty cool. Idea is based on creating an interactive experience that`s already there in it`s most natural form, fishing! I´ve been thinking this fishthing for quite a long time, but just could´nt get it to make any sense with my toughts on the interaction itself. Super satisfied with how the dc worked on creating a fake fish experience!

The idea works like this. You simply sit and jig for fish, suddenly it tugs on your rod and you have to be quick to get it to stick by pulling upwards. If all done correctly, you simply get your fish out from underneath the ice.

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Same as the last one just with a dc and some arms in different lenght`s, got the kind of rotation that i need, but still i don`t know what i´m doing. Spending some time on some new ideas and got over to fish and how to illustrate if the fish is fresh. 

Some new ideas that i tested some quick prototypes in. Did not work to good this time either, but it feels like i getting somewhere... 

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Tried to get the ball rotating by using the servo. Figured how to make it turn 360 degrees continously, but does not move much at the max speed. 

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Final brief

Back home from London we started of by learning a pretty cool method called forced association. It works so that when you pair up one input and one output, and sketch out everything that can be just things, ideas and products. Sketch out everything you come up with. With many ideas on the table it was hard to kind of sort out one of them...

During my stay in London, I discovered the pedestrian crossings everywhere. I find it interesting both aesthetically and functional with the blinking bulbs on top of each pole. 

I first thought I would design a interactive installment at an entrance of a building to give a visual display of how many people that is actually inside. 

Following is some prototypes and some codes i did to get the ball spinning around it´s axe instead of moving up and down.

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Paid a visit to Moo and had a great tour with one of their employes showing us how their new digital businesscards works. Really interesting how this open for so many new opportunities. Also talked to the guys down at the productdesigndep, where they showed us their methods of prototyping and told us how they work with their clients...

Great!

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Trym and I came across this Arduino controlled project at the Victoria & Albert museum. Super interesting stuff!

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