Reflection

Johnny:

We learned more about programming with Photon’s C++ based language. We had wrongly assumed it would have more pre-built functions like Python. However, it was a good learning experience and exercise to write functions out. We also learned that the Photon has a memory limit, and space is valuable in this context. It will help us be more wary in the future. There is not necessarily something we would do differently, since we reached our goals without too many setbacks. 

Supawat:

Getting the hardware to work was difficult. There wasn't an online tutorial I can look up in terms of getting the tie to become flaccid and erected, therefore I had to improvise through rapid prototyping. Fabricating this hardware is a confusing and ambiguous design space, and I'm really glad for my first semester Design Studio experience.

As a team of design and information systems student, I was responsible majorly for ideating the concept and hardware side of things. Working through ideas rapidly and visually helped me generate and articulate concepts. And while I generated the concept, alone I would be unable to complete my idea for I lacked the data-scraping skill Johnny possess. While I'm interested in learning more about the data scraping side of things, this project has helped inform me of the values of my role as a designer can bring to a team in tech.