reflection

This final project felt like an introduction to the year two. An insight into the protocols for gaining clearance within AUT and getting permission from outside entities.

It's a interesting coincidence that Zak and I were in one of the introduction project groups. through the year we had been discussing our projects and discussing possible improvements even though not being in the same group. and have of gained a reputation for complicated projects, especially Zak. This project was the first time we had fully collaborated on since the early introduction projects,

We learnt lots:
never trust a power socket when your electrical current is vital to the the project.
complex wiring is a awesome but takes longer to debug.
modular building is the best way to make stuff portable, upgradeable and  reusable.
you can never have too much heat-shrink!
people are ridiculously hard to convince when you have the most to gain.


There was a interesting discussion with Charles which was how do you determine a successful project?
is it the technical soundness or achievement, or is is it the concept and how its portrayed to its audience?
In terms of technical and process we created a great project. brought down somewhat by the fact that no-one would give us permission to acheive the original concept.  If it was a gurrellia project I can imagine the result being the polar opposite. A projects success is subjective to perception, the presentation was a entity devised to fit within a deadline and in the end the project will be remebered for the technical acomplishments and the building a ecosystem to acheive this aplication. the assessments are formative afterall.
 It gives us a extremely good base to work off for the presentation of the semesters work. but thats for later :)

in terms of acheiveing the goals of the breif, all the groups appeared to have issue gaining a audience the only group that seemed to gain a audience was the one outside the libary in which people stopped to work out what was going on with 20 something people congregrated around a screen, then as soon as it clicked the left. maybe afterall the saturation of screens has really made us actively filter them out.