This moving project taught me a lot. It was extremely frustrating to go through this continuous cycle of “this doesn’t work” and “wait it isn’t working”..”why??!”

It is extremely annoying and I was not having the best day already so I was not in the mood for the design thinking cycle, but the design thinking cycle was in the mood for me, let me tell you.

My group and I just got started my making the motor. We knew how to do this already because of the drawing bot activity.

It was pretty easy to get the motor going because it wasn’t anything knew to us, but we did want to figure out a different way to get the pictures to move than just doing exactly what we did last time.

We started experimenting with the idea of getting the pictures to move by creating a fan effect on the motor.

We couldn’t get the motor working in a way that gave enough blowing air. I experimented by making fan shaped “propellers”

It didn’t work.

I was upset to say the least.

That was the first cycle of design thinking, it was a lot of imagining and thinking and creating and breaking down and then recreating, because it seemed as though nothing would work.

Moving forward we had the idea of really focusing on the “story” we wanted to tell with our photos because if we couldn’t come up with something super technically interesting, then we might as well make it nice to look at.

We began cutting out different images that had the same kinda “feel”. We wanted to tell a story of forest or “creepy” scene where a scared cat is running through this place.

We put the pictures together on a single sheet of interestingly colored paper and made an arch in hopes it would make the images shake in a more interesting way.

We liked the story we came up with, but not the way it was looking.

We tried the fan again for the heck of it….

 

Another cycle gone through

We changed the placement of the glue stick and it made an interesting vibration, it moved the images so quickly that it make the cats legs look like they’re moving. It was pretty cool, so we played upon that.

Another cycle…

We redid the way we presented the photos, adding more pictures and changed the orientation so it would make a little more sense to the viewer.

It was finally starting to work out the way we had wanted.

I learned to be patient with the project at hand and go with the flow, there is a cycle for a reason. It’s meant to be gone through more than once.