Digital fabrication, Project development.

Nineteenth week

On this week we must Track the progress of the project, difficulties encountered and possible trouble tolutions.





WHAT TASK HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND WUAT TASK REMAIN?

MECHANICAL:

The silencer worked pretty good, however I've seen a voice dispersion on the shell, I think partly due to the small hole that I've done to the shell from the filter.

ELECTRONICS:

The primary problem of electronics was the dimensions and surely derive from my inexperience. My purposes was for a more compact object, however this was a prototype, and next attempts surely will give a better result.

PROGRAMMING:

The programmation gave me a lot of troubles too. The sound was an hard way to walk in electronics (or that was for me). Surely the programmation can be refined to reach a better sound calibration but, for now, it worked better than I imagined.





WHAT HAS WORKED? WHAT HASN'T?

Electronics made me mad, I've seen a LOT of changements, calibration, programmations, to redo. Sometimes was a software problem, sometimes hardware problem, sometims just an human mistake. It stolen me an huge amount of time.
A trouble that I wanted to resolve was about a filter that can be opened to be cleaned, or just for a maintenance, so I thinked about it in two parts that can be jointed. After a lot of possibility thinked, I decided for a screwing joint on the mask, plus male and female holes, stucked with a rubber bands.





WHAT QUESTION NEED TO BE RESOLVED?

For sure I have to restyle the circuits to have the better space economy, than I have to do little adjustments, and make more tests to have a better sound isolation.





WHAT WILL HAPPEND WHEN?

In the future I will try to fix all the things that can be upgraded to come closer on the idea of my final project.





WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED?

EVERITHING. I started this academy without any knowledge about it. I used a lot of programs and materials, that gave me a lot of fuel to feed my mind with new ideas!
The hardest part (for me) of the academy was surely the electronic. I like it a lot (specially the soldering) however I repeat that was a really huge world to undestand completely with "few" times.





DOCUMENTATION DURING DEVELOPMENT

Can be found on my final project page.





DEMAND VS SUPPLY-SIDE TIME MANAGEMENT

I always wanted to start with my final project construction soon as possible. However I've changed my final project during the academy, because I needed some time to understand correctly the purpouse of the academy, and my skills theoretically. I actively start on the eleventh week, thinking about a voice input and I finished on.. I think that I never finished, because my intenctions to upgrade my mask never stop until I do that!





SPIRAL DEVELOPMENT

I hope to seen next prototypes of this tool, more compact and made with more apropriate materials. On my imaginary I can see this tool in a lot of houses, a lot of my friends really wanted one of those!

FINAL PRESENTATION SLIDE

FINAL PRESENTATION VIDEO

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