Final Work Report

The entire last week was dedicated to project work. Since we also had another project to present on the Friday, we spent every day working till at least seven or eight in the evening. Even though we had much to do during the last week I or anyone else in the group never felt anxious about not having the Facecube ready for the final presentation. All fundamental parts of the Cube worked as it was supposed to, but we had some liability problems with the electronics and the SunSpot. For example, all of a sudden we couldn’t have six LEDs connected to one SunSpot. At first the SunSpot could support six LEDs at the same time but then it just couldn’t. In that case we managed to get four LEDs working, where each was pointing a light on one side of the cube. For the two remaining sides we used the built-in LEDs on the SunSpot, which we directed with some “fiber optics” that we made ourselves out of aluminum foil and small plastic pieces that we glued together. 

Although we had some problems with the SunSpots we never felt that we weren’t going to make it on time, like I said earlier. Because even if the Facecube wasn’t reliable, we had had it working at several occasions so we knew that all the functions was working. So at the same time as we were trying to make it more reliable we spent a lot of time making the functions funnier and better (changing the text on the website, adding some feedback to the cube with flashing lights…) and making the cube better looking (making icons for example).

The final presentation went very well. Robert tried to be funny as usual, and this time he actually was a little… No, I’m just kidding he did a great job. I think that we finally managed to completely explain how the Facecube would work. Earlier we had a hard time making people actually understand what our intentions was and how it was going to work. Since we now had all our intended functions working (except the picture/tag-thing) and an actual physical object it was easier to show and explain what it was doing.

When looking back at our work I feel that there never was any problems or tension in the group. As soon as we decided on what to do we all knew what had to be done and that made it easy to split the group in parts with each having a special responsibility in the making of the Facecube. All sections of our “company” ultimately delivered which resulted in the final concept we all imagined at the start.