#ahoworks

at the beginning of the aho works week i fell sick with the noro-virus, so instead of showcasing my work throughout the semester i was at home being sick. this was extremely frustrating to me, as i really wanted to showcase the work.

The last weeks have been hectic, and it isn't long ago that my DOTT looked like this:

The idea of the product has changed. At first I started thinking about time and interactions, and how time could be the input of my product. I thought about calendars, and things you could write on mostly. This became quite vague, but after a while I became more and more intent on making something you could take notes on that would store them for you. It is now an analog to digital diary or sketchbook.

Through the weeks the interaction itself has been altered a lot too. It went from a thing you couldn't control yourself that uploaded your notes randomly, to having a set time interval between uploads, to how it works today. 

DOTT is a nice little piece you can put on your desk, wether it's at work, at school or home. With everything being purely digital nowadays, I wanted to bring back noting using handwriting and sketches, while still being able to save them all in one place. That way you would never again misplace sketches for ideas that you scribbled down long ago. 

It works like this: You write/draw or scribble on the blank paper area, and when you are done you use the tip of your pen to dot inside the circle in the aluminium frame. This triggers a pressure sensor which tells the arduino to start the small servo engine up. (Here you can see the code)The 360 degree servo then spins one round and stops. While the servo spins, the thought is that a small scanner located at the back of DOTT, scans and uploads what you have scribbled to your profile on DOTTs homepage. The homepage could look something like this:

The finished prototype is made of american walnut wood and aluminium.

This video shows a typical scenario in which to use DOTT: when you read for exams. You take notes, but you also want to draw out examples and the like, and then save them for later. Hope you enjoy it!

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