Saturday, November 6, 2010

Final Presentation


Here is the final proto-type for our bus stop design. Unfortunately after slaving away for days on the electronic components, we were unable to get the circuitry how we wanted it to run. It would have been really cool if we could have used our device at the final presentation, but we were able create some basic images in illustrator to further explain the poles abilities and functions.
  

I have really enjoyed working with my teammates Pat and Ned over this semester. I feel we worked coherently together and got our design to the best possible for the time we had available. Two things I’ve learned from this project are to manage my time more strictly and consistently record and organise all work conducted on projects.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Moldy Puzzle

Pat came up with a brilliant idea for a quick and easy manufacturing technique to produce the route shape for individual poles. Because every route will have a different map, we had to think of an easy way to manufacture the different route shapes using one machine. Pat's idea involves a series of steal puzzle pieces that all have specific sizes and fit together on a vacuum molding table.