Friday, November 22, 2013

The Home of depot

Today we retook measurements and found out some prices and the total was around twenty-five dollars.  Yesterday we had our presentations and ours turned out well.  We had the closest time to five minutes and we moved smoothly from topic to topic.  The track systems range from twenty inches to sixteen and the prices ranged from fifteen dollars to twenty.  Fletcher found our steel platform for nine dollars and forty-eight cent.  I had a little bit of trouble getting my laptop to work and the day went to fast for any changes to be made in the design.  This design will most likely be the final along with the black steel and painted black track systems.  Our project moved along smoothly and I found somethings wrong with Lowe's and Fletcher suggested Sears.  Landon searched Sears while I checked Home depot.  We lost many of the original track systems we looked at and we decided that we need to move on with it and buy one.


Monday, November 18, 2013

Presenting in 3...2...1...0

Today was great time flew by as we practiced, and practiced, and practiced, and practiced, and practiced our presentation which will be in next week.  In the class Fletcher surprised us with a special foam board cut out design that was functional.  Our presentation lasted for 4 minutes and 25 second.  Landon did great with his presentation that seemed sketchy last week.  Fletcher worked on the foam model that is to scale.  We have several flaws that are not obvious but we found them to be a concern.  When we get time we will research the problems and see if there is any way to fix them.  It has been a short week and we will finish it with in the weeks after Thanksgiving break.  It has been a long time since we have made a major change to the design.  Our design is almost done and should be finished soon.



Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The presentation

Today Fletcher gave us a scare when he showed us what he had on the power point so far.  It was short and he told us to get to work on what we would say.  I worked on mine the whole time and we tried to recover the images that were taken over the past 10 weeks.  Fletcher keep most of them so we had to check his laptop.  Today I did a little research on sliding track systems because we are behind on that aspect.  We will have some more brain storming on Friday as I tried to this Friday.  We will also try to practice our presentation.  Fletcher has the opening I have the middle and Landon has finale.  Fletcher is putting together the three separate power points together and add the visuals that can change the presentation.   It was like going through and old photo album trying to find goo pictures from the project.




Friday, November 1, 2013

Presentation ready


Today Fletcher worked on the presentation powerpoint.  I researched cheap parts on Home Depot and Landon will tell you what he did on his blogger account.   Fletcher has moved forward and we are close to the final design that will be the iHelper a final picture was promised but a slight change so the final is not for sure.   If we can we will have a some prototypes.  The presentation Is coming along well.  Landon skipped out on us for half the class.  Next week the presentation will be done and ready to presented.  The track systems will go in opposite directions so that it will limit the total motion os the desk.  It also serves to protect the track systems from over stress.  Fletcher's blog has a diagram of the double track systems and my picture has the track system that I found on Home Depot and Landon has what every he did.