So we’ve had our presentation, written the group report (70 pages) and just finishing off the individual reflection. I think as a team we’ve done pretty well. The experience as a whole has been invaluable: what it’s like to work with engineers, different types of people from different backgrounds, as we were a total mix on this minor. My presentation skills have improved, visuals have also become much faster as I wouldn’t dare ask an engineer to make a poster now – the result of that as I’ve seen is a lovely blue to orange gradient of some form and just … Continue reading Conclusion of Semester 1 & Presentation

Prototyping became underway this week with problem after problem appearing. Because we are strained for time we’ve had to improvise as the system is pretty complicated. In an ideal world we would of have multiple sketch models prior to finalize the size etc. but with multiple things ongoing at the same time this became more and more impossible. We had our frame of the mirror originally cut at laserbeest, but we didn’t really think about potential strain on the structure. So the structure fitted together ok to start with, but when we started hammering in the last bits gently the … Continue reading Nigor Update II – With Prototype