Blog #11 Change of Powering Plan

(We forgot to finish post the blog for it covered 2 weeks , so here is it.) After we had built the prototyped at Max’s, we brought to the class for approval. We made 6 LED strips works with battery and one Arduino board, and the code worked as well. We got a few classmate…

Blog #13 Installation and Event

“This is it, today is the day.” We greeted each other in the morning when we met in Max’s car. After more than 2 months of learning, working, iterating, Sail Rail was finally ready for the event, we were excited about that. We had run the final test on Friday’s class and sorted and packed…

Sail – Blog #8

In this week, our main focus were to transfer the original idea of the rail to the bench and run some tests with the prototype, we also worked on the installation plan based on the suggestions from Ruchi and Lian. By Saturday we have already finished all the coding and testing of mapping data, and…

Blog #5 Sail

Last week was a big week for Sail, other than the official feedback from assignment 1 which we talked about in the previous blog, we got some important technical feedback from Karen and Louis. Our concept is to sensor the speed, time and distant of skaters’ grinding on the rail and provide them with visualized…

Week 3+4 Project Planning and Site Works

Having the team formed and knowing each other, we discussed the plan of starting the project referencing the assessment guidelines. After several discussions and meetings, we have a basic plan of starting our discovery and research as we wrote down: Technically, we allocated works based on our abilities for example Max will work more on…