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FYP part 5- Hephaestus Systems Planning + Software learning + Modelling + Gantt Chart
To understand what to plan for, I would need to understand the nature of the project. As the task for completing a physical + mechanical project differed far from a virtual-screen-based project like games and visuals. There will be more restrictions in doing a physical project than virtual one due to the nature law of physic, material and cost.
Money Problems:
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Final Year Project Research & Process IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBnWpVH9-m8
During researching I came across this project who Laura Kampf the artist made this Happy Machine herself. It require an adult to cycle where the pivot point will cause the opposite carriage to turn. This simple mechanism I find it interesting that can be inspiration for my project.
However when I look in further, there are many issue such as safety Read more →
FYP part 4- Hephaestus Systems - Initial Concept Generation + Further Researches
continuation from the previous post, part 3 (Initial Project Brief, Specification, Moodboard & Researches),
Project update since the previous post, I decided to shift my focus of the project from ” To build a set of robots that help our FYP Show” to “To build a system that help our FYP show”. The Basic direction and everything is still the Read more →
[PDP] FYP Pitch
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lFZB-rYRKe1fskYzmqPXu6m7zKgSy7LVyWD-Dwo10WQ/edit?usp=sharing
FYP Ideation: Food waste part III
Research and more research:
Talks: Food Waste symposium at NTU
It was great timing that the school actually put together a symposium on food waste last Wednesday that invited social enterprises over for a 3-hour talk to give audiences insights as well as a panel discussion.
It was a public lecture where I found the attendees to be PHD students, bioscience students Read more →
FYP Ideas 2
Having attended much of the presentations for the seminar Emergent Visions Adjacency and Urban Screens, I had many takeaways that would definitely inspire the development of my FYP project. Here are some notes on that experience and the thoughts connecting back to my FYP ideations.
In particular, I was most inspired by Kimchi and Chips presentation by Read more →
[PDP] FYP Ideation Part 4
Exploring the ways to showcase family through the use of sewing. Using the gathered stories and interpret it through sewing an abstract image. Each story will be put together to form a big picture which are different. When the audience goes closer or touch the embroidery, the voices of the different people will be heard through a headphone.
Inspired by the Read more →
Final Year Project Research & Process III
After the research, I have I few direction where I can narrow and concentrate on.
Spreading of happiness? As it can brighten up people’s day and making someone happy. Ask people to live the moment? Sometimes it seems like we concentrate what is far away from us then the one close to us. As technology advance also divert our attenttion more on our mobile Read more →FYP Ideation II
In Singapore, a society that is shaped on the belief of meritocracy, the Ps – proving, pleasing, perfecting, performing are so overpowering that many of us land into the dark pit of self-doubt, a sense of not being good enough. Ever since infancy we’ve been trained to hide our natural expressions and also repress the negative but instead to put Read more →
FYP ideation progress: Food for thought on food wastage
More research!
Further research on food waste has been rather eye opening on this recurrent issue, as there seem to be quite an effort curbing the issue in Singapore.
Just recently on 28 March 2018, there was a Singapore community food festival ‘Feeding the 5000’ that took place at City Square mall. It aims to raise awareness for the 791,000 tonnes of Read more →