We continued to work on two main vectors of the product: design and tech:
Design Progress
After receiving feedback for our mood board from last week, we improved and expanded the scopes of our product mood board to material, aesthetics, emotions and lightning:
After improving the mood board, we moved to sketch a low fidelity prototype - a simple object that gains the maximum using scenario in minimal effort and materials.
We added yellow and blue cellophane papers to our tree paper prototype, to simulate the LED lightning and turn off as a reaction to the students reports.
In addition, we keep our design research and search for additional design inspiration. We now consider another kind of design in contrary to the tree shaped product - a LED fabric that will be suspended on the classroom's walls.
Be aware of spoilers ;)
Tech Progress
We continued our technological development to connect our three components: student reporting app, cloud server and database and microcontroller classroom object.
Our main progress this week:
Upgrade from single LED implementation to 10 LED strip (WS2812B) implementation.
Transform the student report interface web application implementation into a native app implementation (React Native).
Added a fade in and out effects on LED lighting and turn off.