Closing Remarks

The last week has given me some time to reflect on the course and what I learned from it. During our review, John Marshall asked us a question about what moment during the course we felt like things started working for us as a team. At the time I couldn't think of an answer, and I wasn't sure what had changed for me personally that made the team work better, but know I think I understand what happened. There was a moment about three or four weeks before the project was due, that I realized that there was no way that our team was going to have a great project, or at least a project that would satisfy me. I came to terms with this, and decided that I would rather have a decent project than no project at all. For me, that is when our team started working together the best. I stopped trying to push the project in the direction I wanted it to go, and just went with what everyone else wanted to do. As a result, I was able to put a lot of time and energy into the project without arguing with my team mates.

Assembly

Assembly is going pretty good. We have all of our pieces fabricated except for the wooden panels, and the aluminum which we are water jetting right now. Hopefully we can get everything put together tomorrow night so that we have Wednesday and Thursday to wire it and install it in the gallery.

production

We have finally started making stuff! the first of our pieces have been fabricated. 2 sheets of acrylic were lazer cut, and we have started water jetting our aluminum pieces, although we have run into some time issues there. The pieces we have made so far all fit together properly, so hopefully the servos and panels work just as well. One thing I am a little concerned about is the weight. After carrying the three sheets of we ordered, me and pete realized how heavy this thing is going to be. I am hoping the bottom modules can carry the weight of those on top of them.