This week was an interesting week and sadly no one liked Kim`s and my idea in regards to the organic domes. Everyone hated it and did not want to incoperate them into the project :(. On the bright side the beans started sprouting which was quite exciting to see. It should be almost fully grown by the time we have to present our installation. Well, keeping in mind that the rest of the group agrees to using them in the installation. On Wednesday Micheal and the guys cut and drilled more pipes. The rest of us used this time to decide where we wanted the 4 photoresistors to go if not in the organic domes. We also had to figure out where was the best location to put the proximity sensor the pipes so that it would detect people close enough to the tree. The proximity sensor would act as the heart and soul of the tree and therefore it would produce a the colour change in one of the atoms that would be different from the other atoms. After some thought, the plan was to place the proximity sensor on the right of the front, two "tails". A hole would be drilled in the middle of that pipe and the proximity sensor would be taped on top of that pipe. Each tail would have one photoresistor each, so a hole would be drilled in the pipe caps. The other two proximity sensors would be placed at the end where two "fins" would be protruding outwards in the middle, just before the "head" of the structure.
Once we established those locations we began cutting all the sensor wires and the plan is to start soldering them to a prototyping board on Friday. Friday was also the day for ladder training, we had to do this safety training since were where going to hang our structure. Andy, Kimberly and I (Divya) were the only two that were available to do the ladder training on that day. It was a quite scary experience climbing the ladder since it was extremely high up. Once i reached to the top, it was just enough for me to touch the ACW 103 ceiling. Vanessa came in and got most of the soldering done for the photoresistor sensors. Andy and Micheal also drilled all the holes for where we decided the sensors are going to be. There was also a problem occuring with the starter code for the proximity sensors that Kim was not sure how to fix it. Either the plan is to see what is wrong with this code or try to find a new starter code which was proving to be quite difficult. Hopefully we will be able to figure out a solution before next week. It just hit me that next week is our presentation, the 18th of April :o. Time is flying by so quickly!
