Redefining - again

Friday's class was extremely valuable in its ability to help my team identify problems with our project. It was surprisingly fulfilling to be able to find these problems out ourselves, instead of simply having one of the professors point them out. The idea of "reverse brainstorming" is definitely something which I am planning on utilizing on projects outside of this course.

Although the self criticism was good, I think everyone on team one felt a little daunted at the idea of seriously rethinking our project for a third time. We realized that the entire function of our project was a bit shaky, and that it required far to much money, material, and space to implement. I think that everyone in the team feels that the task before us is to make our project stronger, while at the same time making it easier to manage. In order to do this I think that we need to identify the things that are working well in our project, and scrap the rest.

The things which I think are working well are:

• modularity - this allows us to make a surface
• solar collection - this is necessary to make our project heliotropic
• Inter-Surface interaction - having each module of the surface comunicating with the other modules makes it smart
• Lighting - while people may not need to be shaded in parks, and may not want to spend time getting their laptop or phone charged, they still need to walk through parks when it is dark.