#gettingexcited
After finally settling on a project on making a boat that looks like a fish, we were told to get down to the mechanics. The process of brainstorming has left us confused as to whether we were tackling our project correctly — do we start with what we wanted to create, or a problem we wanted to solve? Should we think about our limitations, or should we dream big then scale down? Frustrated and at a loss, we looked to Dr Ho and Tony, who once again provided us with words of wisdom from a wealth of experience: “you’ll never start at the right place, you just have to start somewhere.” With that; presenting to you our final block diagram, which is probably the 10th refinement. But really, who is counting?
[Poor resolution there, for a better quality visit our Google Slides document. ]
After mapping out what we knew we needed, it was time to source for the components and figure out the hardware, and how the software was supposed to work with the hardware — not to mention how the software was supposed to work.
All these considerations were an overwhelming lot, so the following blogs is an attempt to breakdown everything that was happening at once!