Week 14 Concept Video (DJ DROP THE BEAT)

Name: William (Yude Xu) / Ryan (Yang Ren) / Muhammad Hussain In our concept video, we want to explain our concept clearly, therefore, in our concept video, the video has been divided into three parts, including traditional skate park, our concept, feedbacks from users. In the first part, we concluded some key words from our…

-Week 9 – Water Proofing – DJ Drop The Beat – Team 4

By yuxu301/ William Xu Team DJ Drop the Beat: William (Yude) Xu, Ryan Yang, Muhammad Hussain In this week we’ve used numerous materials to build water proofing materials for our equipments. The first thing we made was the LED strip tube. In which it was designed to protect the LED strip from been damage when…

TEAM 4 – FINAL BLOG – DESIGN PROCESS EVALUATION – DJ DROP THE BEAT

Team DJ Drop the Beat: William (Yude) Xu, Ryan Yang, Muhammad Hussain   Final thoughts: We believe that one of our major mistake in the designing Process was as of the following 1. During our research and discovery period, we should have created personas before going into concept design. Without personas, the first three concepts our team created…

Team 4 week 12: Findings From the In-class Peer Evaluation

Team 4 mhus9984: Week 12 After a rigorous run in the studio with our peers doing the tests, we employed the think aloud method and then asked them to fill out our surveys. One of us explained the testers, the other recorded their responses and one of us documented the tests through pictures. To get…

Team 4, Week 11: Planning and Conducting the In-Class Peer Evaluations

(Team 4) – Muhammad Hussain – mhus9984 We have made considerable improvements in our prototype at this stage in week 11. Our wires connecting the system are soldered. The code works fine and the system consisting of LED Matrix, LED strips and TV display are working as aimed.  Unless we run into some unforeseen problem…

Week 13 Sk.8 Event Day – Team DJ Drop The Beat

By yuxu301/ William Xu Team DJ Drop the Beat: William (Yude) Xu, Ryan Yang, Muhammad Hussain Introduction In this week we prepared for the SK.8 Event day. Whereby we summarised the experience from our first user test and began drawing up two survey forms. One for the user and one for the spectators. The reason…

Week 9-11 LED STRIP (TEAM DJ DROP THE BEAT)

Name: William (Yude Xu) / Ryan (Yang Ren) / Muhammad Hussain In our project, we need a six meters led strip connected together. We need to figure out how to get a six meters led strip.  The initial idea was connecting four led strips together. We connected three one-meter length led strips and one three-meters…

Team 4, Week 10: LED Dot Matrix; Making it work with the System

(Team 4) – Muhammad Hussain – mhus9984 The system that we have designed for the Pilot SK.8 has three major components. There is an ultrasonic sensor which will be used to sense the distance covered by the skaters on the skate bench and then the arduino board will use the distance data to give output…

Team 4, Week 8: Sydneham Skatepark Prototyping Ideas and decision-making

(Team 4) – Muhammad Hussain – mhus9984 It has been a grueling few weeks. We are looking towards presenting our first installation at the Sydneham Skatepark. But before we can proceed we had to finalize some of the matters that were unclear. Some of the questions were; Should we be using sound? What kind of…

Week 11 User Test Changes and trouble shooting

  Week 11 User Test Changes and trouble shooting By yuxu301/ William Xu Team DJ Drop the Beat: William (Yude) Xu, Ryan Yang, Muhammad Hussain Introduction On this week’s user evaluation, tester made the following complaints animation speed was too fast Thus I tweaked the speed of animation to slow to down. I also tweaked…