Final Update

After the User Test on (2/8), there were several components needed upgrade:

structure – nonexistent and/or not convincing nor appealing
book mechanisms is not working

Week 12:

8/8:

meeting with lecturer to discuss and plan the book mechanism
lecturer helped with assembling the metal structures that required power tools

mechanism update: 3D printed dial with micro switch, some stoppers may be applied

9/8:

3D printing and trial-and-error-ing the measurement to fit to the book
animation work still going on
copywriting work on the book

Week 13:

13/8:

laser cut the remaining book structure, the bones, to make the hollow space to fit the sensors
continue working on the interact-ables (3D printing work)
animation work still going on
copywriting work on final messages

14/8:

printed the finalised pages

sticking it to the woodpieces

measuring & make cuts on corrugated boards for the structure

we need a few panels to cover up the front & back, sides & top

15/8:

hand cutting and laser cutting corrugated boards to desired measurements
cutting holes into the plywood to attach sensors and interact-ables
animation needs some fine tune and refining

16/8:

getting a PC for display and run Processing (spoiler: it didn't work, we didn't have converter for VGA to HDMI; backup plan required)
fine tuning of animation
sticking the wooden frame, now they've got hollow spaces (spoiler: we made a mistake, we didn't put in the nut for the screws later, DOH!)

this day we're overnight-ing at college for another projects needed to be submitted in 4 days and required many hours to complete, there wasn't much progress after this.

Week 14:

21/8:

we're just done with our other projects, today is a rest day, preparing for an overnight tomorrow

fix the nonexistent slot for the nut that we forgot to put on beforehand
redid the acrylic by putting car tint film to prevent reflection instead of the blue filter paper because it's inconsistent and bubbly

22/8 (public holiday) - 23/8 :

wow no holiday, bye holiday

full day working on the book and measuring the structure
attaching sensors to where they belong and their corresponding interact-ables
fine tuning animation
structure work
copywriting work
coding work
wiring work (spoiler: too messy our lecturer needed to hands on)

final look in case something bad happens, this is working perfectly, btw

23/8 (final client review):

lecturer fixed the wiring
final touch wiring & stickers placing
screw everything together
animation is complete
structure is 80% complete, need some fine tuning

client review result:

a few bug (major bug) in the code
animation needs some final fine tuning here and there

OVERNIGHT pt.2

23/8 - 24/8:

too tired there are a lot of nap breaks

tried fixing the code but to no avail
animation is complete
structure is complete
in the morning our lecturer came up with solutions for the code (much thanks awlolo)
problems solved
wait until 10pm to bring over installation to Sunway Pyramid for the setup

OVERNIGHT pt.3

24/8-25/8:

worked whole night (with slacks and McD break hehe thanks) to setup and try the user journey over and over again to make sure it works, but too bad nothing is perfect.

25/8 (Exhibition day):

needs to reset(code word: banana) after a few times because it gets laggy
exhibition went well, OK
fix the instructions on the animation for the next day, it was rather unclear at first

before edit (no instructions):