Final Project Process 6 - The Finale

So the big day has finally come and go. I'm proud of myself and Dragan for sticking it through and pushing ourselves to get this thing right. I think we make a swell group. We made so much progress from our midterm project both artistically and conceptually. Electronics are such a pain in the ass, though. I just have to throw that out there. But it feels good when you can get them to work the way you want them to work and it shows. I really wish we had an actual house as a space because that would have really pushed our concept further. However, we made it work with the blackbox space and dividing up everyone's areas for their projects. Our project was much different from everyone else's in the sense that it wasn't an actual physical thing that was tangible. It was more of a voice than a physical apparatus and that is what I liked most about it.

Picture time!!

Our lovely welcome doormat in front of the house entrance

Under the mat was cardboard and a stack of magazines

Cut in the middle was a small rectangular opening to

stick a small black breadboard that housed our 

button, resistor, and wires going under the couch.

Closeup of the button and breadboard

Rangefinder hiding behind the plants and rocks.

I bet you did not know that was there. We tried to

hide it really good.

All of our wonderful wave shields soldered by 

us. Each wave shield held each group's messages,

which were separated and labeled by the memory cards.

The photocell sensor was placed under Miriam & Emilie's

lamp so whenever it was turned on by blowing on the candle, 

one of our messages played.

This was essentially what was under the lamp minus the LED

 and it was also on that small black breadboard instead.