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Final presentation

Post 52

My final post on this blog, for this project.

I had food poisoning so I had to go through alot of complications during my presentation.

Like the screen decided to not want to extend properly.

Feedback:
- Focus on branding, make it big. Jazmi said.
- Think of a way to make it cost efficient

Graphs of my emotional state and progress

Post 51

Happiness level: -20

I don't have enough time, should have asked for the extra one week I lost from being hospitalized. And tomorrow is the submission.

I can't get my wifi to work. It's hard.
I can't connect my pages together.
Jam's tutorial wasn't what I was looking for. *cries

Today I spent my day at the IIS setting up for tomorrow, and taking a simple walk through video. At least I progressed somewhat.

August 2014's progress was really high because it was still in pre-planning mode. I was ambitious and filled with energy.

October 2014 was a holiday, hence the very little progress and high emotional state.

And in November 2014, my progress shot up but I was very very emotionally down because that was when I encountered all the real problems.

Toward the end my emotional state was really low and had little progress. Due to my fever and etc.

Got the easy part done - WIFI ARDUINO XBEE LILYPAD

Post 50

Happiness Level: 6

I have to admit, I have been avoiding this project for quite sometime ever since my Dengue fever.
But I did double check the connection with the wifi and it works fine.

To make life easier, and to clear up what the tutorial failed to mention, (which resulted me and Yee Siang into panic mode) is that the +++ command is automatic, but the other commands are not.

Which means after typing ATMY or any other command, you have to press enter.

If not you would be like me, waiting for the automatic OK response for like forever.

I used two computers to send the messages, my desktop and my laptop and configured the 2 xbees by myself, with the help of the tutorial.

This is the CoolTerm on my desktop which acts as the SENDER,

And the xbee,

And this is the CoolTerm (receiver) on my laptop.

And the Xbee.

One thing I noticed though, I cannot send messages from the receiver to the sender. Only the Glove Xbee could send the info, because I set it that way, There's not back and forth communication.

I don't think that would be a worry though, my project does not require back and forth comm.

Now to link it with Processing.

I'm not excited.

More things to do:

- Wait for Jam Long to reply me on the tutorial he had which could fix my unlinkable pages

- Set the invoke for the delay thing to restart. (probably only I would understand what I'm typing)

An update on the logistics too,
Looks like I won't be needing an arch or stage mount thing, the ceiling at Publika blackbox would suffice.
Sad that nobody wants to be near my installation because of its loudness.

As for the unity and the delay matter,
David told me that there is no such thing as 'YEILD' for unity C# and that I should only use INVOKE.

Alpha Test with Level 4

Post 49

Happiness level : 8

Would give it a 10 if I had more help moving my junk up two flights of stairs.

Lecturers that gave their comments as well: Daniel Chong, Jiawern Kok, Jazmi Jamal, Sweii, Kelvin, Jam Long

You can see the band changing from green to blue!

So, based on my very unique survey, I have collected a number of drawings of faces which are pretty much explanatory.

Following things to improve:
- Make the differences wider between idle mode and active mode
- the tutorial isn't obvious enough
- get the wifi working

Edit//
My components from Singapore has finally arrived! Yeay!

Preparing for Alpha test with LV 4 Students (our juniors)

Post 48

Happiness level: 5

I've built a ramp for the projector with hard card but it came out the wrong height. I'll fix it tomorrow morning.

There are some progress, although very little. Many of my tutors and classmates were complaining that my band was impossible to wear because it was too tight. (Which I agree) So I sewed elastic bands to increase the elasticity of the band and stuck on the Velcro so that the white plastic flap could close properly and stop flapping around.

And here's me playing with the accelerometer. I realized I haven't really showed anyone this.

My wifi parts from Singapore haven't arrived yet and I'm starting to get worried.

As for the video during the experience, I had videos of people fist pumping but they were in black and white. Initially I wanted to make them all black and white because one of the videos in there are in black and white. But Jazmi said it looked like a revolt video.

SO, I re-edited it again and put the color back and added some film burns. I also increased the size of the tutorial man cause it was too small before.

It wasn't necessary to have a survey during the Alpha test, (we just needed 5 participants to try it out and gather their feedback in our little notebook) but I created one anyway.

I made it fun too, so that they would be more relaxed and honest when answering my questions. I didn't want it to be serious and boring, because that's how I usually feel when I'm asked to do surveys without a free gift as a reward.

Click to enlarge.

Here are some of the field work I did in stalking for scaffolding.

As for the 'scaffolding', I talked to a few people, but a flower shop (FLEUR) is willing to rent me a wedding arch with branches which looks great and mysterious for RM260. I think it's still too expensive so I might want to entice her with promotional opportunities so I could get it sponsored.

Guest Sharing with Mr. Benedict from G2

Post. 47

Happiness level: 8

My Happiness is only that high because of Benedict's response to my project. He gave me a mini clap and said that he loved it.
He also said that my project had a lot of potential and could be expanded everywhere, events, concerts, ads, etc.
He was surprised that it was also an individual work.

The reason why my happiness level was 2 points shy to perfect is because I had to show my entire project in a badly rendered video at the last minute. Couldn't use our space at the IIS because the other levels were using it.