Reflection

One of my greatest struggles when trying to bring the concept of Timmy toaster to life was the limitations of my technical knowledge. For example, extremely late into my build process I began to notice that the colored LEDs inside of Timmy were beginning to affect the onboard color sensor, which was resulting in very odd behavior. I tried in vain to mask the light from reaching the sensor, but I ultimately came up short. In the end though, I suppose part of the beauty of a “moody appliance” not acting the way you intend it to is, in itself, a bit animistic.

In terms of reception, I was happy that people could understand the concept I was going for fairly quickly. However, I felt that I didn’t quite achieve the affect I wanted - while Timmy was cute and technically functioned mostly as expected, the “moodiness” I wanted didn’t quite read with just lights as an output. I think if I had more time to explore, and possibly add more outputs, the overall effect would have been more successful.