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Wow what a ride for this final project, we managed to get our final artifact + poster finished quite early this week. However, a couple of issues I have to address though, our first A2 poster we did on Photoshop was very blurry when printed out we literally didn't know why that was the case, luckily a fellow classmate pointed out our problem and told us that we didn't set the resolution high enough. So because of this we had to remake the whole poster again, but was still doable and managed to get it completed without much sleep in one day. 

Me and Harry both woke up very early today in studio to set up our stuff, everything was going very well until we came across our artifact “ food scanner”  that wouldn't read the fries we had brought from burger king. We knew exactly what the issue was but just couldn't seem to fix it and we were both very frustrated at that point. Thank god the kiwi fruit worked, so rather than having two different type of food to test we only had one during the exhibition.

I have decided to focus on and further develop one of my groups prototypes from block two. I chose to focus on the development and design of indoor smart veggie gardens. After doing some surveys that gathered information from classmates on their thoughts on existing indoor hydroponic veggie garden systems compared to traditional outdoor veggie gardens. A response that many had was that they would prefer the outdoor veggie garden as it had a more natural look and feel, which is very understandable. But the truth is that current indoor hydroponic systems can produce crops 3x faster than outdoor gardens and do not have to deal with whatever nature throws at them. Indoor systems also have a huge beneficial factor of much less risk of damage via pests as well as deadly diseases.

Since Indoor hydroponic systems offer more in means of production, I have decided to focus on the design and feeling given by these indoor gardens so that they are more attractive and give more of a ‘natural’ feel.

Ideas for future development based on the prototype - Garden needs to be natural looking - IOT sensors/interaction/knowledge on the advantages

 These Prototype ideas which spawned from Me and Curtis’s first prototype for indoor smart gardens.

Studio II

Over the last two weeks I’ve been so busy working on my studio, programming, and integrative projects that my blog count has dropped down. The flip side of this is that I’ve actually got a lot of work done, and I’ve finished my programming project and should be all set for my studio one.

As I wasn’t qualified to use any of the machines and the 3D labs were very busy, Alana ( @colabpixelpusher ) gave me a hand cutting out the two holes and cutting the board down to size, and then we sanded it smooth. I tied the rope into the board so that you can hang it from the hinges of an open window, and I used some carabiners so that it would be easy to click the birdfeeder onto and off of the window. I also wanted to make it easy to refill and/or clean the bowls, so I cut holes which the bowls sit into. They can be lifted out, but the rim of the bowls supports them when they’re sitting in the board.

The last thing to do is figure out how to set this up. Currently I think that I’ll use nylon wire to hang it from the ceiling in front of a window. Here’s my poster, which I’m mostly happy with.

Printed out, the words are all big and clear enough to read. I do think that I might have too much text on the poster, but I cut out a lot of it and I’ve also got a lot of pictures, so hopefully that balances it out. Photoshop doesn’t have a spellchecker, and a bug meant I couldn’t copy and paste my text into word or anything, so hopefully I caught all the spelling mistakes. Initially I had the poster laid out landscape, but the layout wasn’t working well.