Reflection and Critique

Discuss what you achieved with the project, what did and didn’t work, what you learned, and what you would do if you took this project forward.

Achieved:

• We were able to demonstrate the basic prototype where the switch pressed on the first house triggers the indication remotely on the other house.  Also, the first houses received feedback in the form of two blinks of the roof light. We could also demonstrate the day/light fading effect.

Not Achieved: 

• We could not link the sunset/sunrise time exactly with the fading effect. We could calculate the sunrise and sunset but needed some more time to convert them into useful information and trigger the required fading effects.

Moving Forward:

We received the below feedback from the judges which sounds useful. We would like to implement them into our prototype.

• Instead of using a switch, the motion sensor can be used to automatically detect the movement of the user to initiate the indication of availability. And user can use the switch to signal “I am actually busy”.
• The material that is put in front of a family photo will change opacity based on input. Transparency indicates availability.
  
  
• Additionally, we would also like to implement  the NFC tag to allow a quick contact.(i.e. automatically launch message/call etc.)