As computing becomes more ubiquitous in our objects, designers need to be more aware of how to design meaningful interactions into electronically enhanced objects. At the University of Washington, a class of junior Interaction Design majors is exploring this question. These pages chronicle their efforts.

Sunday, June 5, 2016

No. 7 - Prototyping Update 1

We put in an order from Adafruit with bits and pieces needed for our concept. Some complications included some of the items in our shipment being unnecessary for our project, ordering more than one type of power source where one did not provide enough voltage, and the other needing to be hacked for our use, and lastly, only ordering 30 Neopixels when in reality we needed about triple that amount.
While we waited for our parts to arrive, we went ahead and bought materials for our actual table and sourced part from IKEA (table top and legs) and went to Home Depot to get MDF for the rest of our table construction.
We're still trying to figure out how our divider works and how it would activate the actuators.
Eventually, we decided on a piece of acrylic (sourced from Tap Plastics) to serve as the divider and that on the base of the divider (made of MDF), would be magnets (later purchased from Amazon), sketches followed on how this would be constructed.
In addition, we ended up ordering additional (150) Neopixels from Amazon and a magnetic switch from Vetco Electronics.

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