I did enjoy this project this whole semester. On personal growth, I have acquired all of my goals I have set up in the beginning of the project. I have wanted to do something music related ever since I learned about the FAT project. Concept wise, I am happy we managed to set all the... Continue Reading →
Last day
Today was the last day of the building process. As you read previously we have made new copper buttons with a finger print engraved on it, making sure it is gonna be understandable for the users. We tested it out on other people and we received positive feedback, the button making more sense now. We... Continue Reading →
Building W.9
Last week we almost finished with the lower part, having already put together the acrylic plastic shapes. I don't wanna brag but we received a lot of compliments from other teams regarding our acrylic shapes, saying that they look cool and eye catching. This week we have to finish the upper part of the the... Continue Reading →
Final touch ups
Today it's not as busy however there are still some tasks remaining to accomplish. As we are trying to help each other, one of my tasks for now was creating digital building wireframe of our installation so the promotion team could further use them. I decided to go for a simple design of the whole... Continue Reading →
Building W.8
Another big post, sorry but during the week there's not much time to write a bunch of small ones:p Also should warn you that it will be a lot, lot of text and very little pictures unfortunately. We started from planning how we will attach the legs to the pedestal. Last week we cut a... Continue Reading →
Building W.7
It's time to update our progress for the last week. We did got some results to share. At the beginning of the week we didn't have much, and we saw that other teams started building already so we got a mini panic attack and decided that we can also start building the lower part for now... Continue Reading →
Testing the design
To make our design not only pretty but also usable we needed to test it as well. The feedback for the first design wasn't the best. Even though they liked our idea but there wasn't clear what that was and how it supposed to work also the map wasn't visible and general look wasn't the... Continue Reading →
Materials
This time we decided to use more reliable materials for our installation, so it would be easier to give it a professional look. So far we are planning to use wood for outer part and acrylic plastic for inner part. The lower part of our installation we are planing to make from hard wood provided... Continue Reading →
3D model of the installation
While sketching different versions of the installation, some teachers advised on having a 3D model for a better perceivance of the installation. We took the advice of the teachers and created our first model in Maya. After discussing with the team, the pedestal will be way taller and the map thinner.
Old concept – new sketches
As we, the building team, had a hard time making the prototypes we had to give up on the old designs and come up with something new. We are still working with the old concept, however we did add a new value to it, involving the map of enschede. As inspiration we are going for... Continue Reading →
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