Group Project
I hate group work. It makes me anxious, and I get very tense about it. Luckily, I was grouped with Ben (who is a ray of sunshine) and Christina (who humors my less than enthusiastic spirit). Our goal was to create a cohesive sound apparatus through pars we each brought to the table in the form of electronic toys for tots. Then create a housing for it using the Rhino software. This project was all of my technological nightmares just wrapped together.
Our toys were :
Was breaking down the toys. We took the electronic parts and power sources from their plastic casing using brute force, screw drivers and hand saws. Once the parts were gutted we looked at what we had to deal with
MUCH to my surprise, circuit bending, soldering, and experimenting was actually enjoyable.
I hate group work. It makes me anxious, and I get very tense about it. Luckily, I was grouped with Ben (who is a ray of sunshine) and Christina (who humors my less than enthusiastic spirit). Our goal was to create a cohesive sound apparatus through pars we each brought to the table in the form of electronic toys for tots. Then create a housing for it using the Rhino software. This project was all of my technological nightmares just wrapped together.
Our toys were :
- an Elmo phone
- a battery operated drum
- a battery operated guitar
Was breaking down the toys. We took the electronic parts and power sources from their plastic casing using brute force, screw drivers and hand saws. Once the parts were gutted we looked at what we had to deal with
- resistors
- printed circuit boards
- transistors
- speakers
- batteries
- potentiometer
MUCH to my surprise, circuit bending, soldering, and experimenting was actually enjoyable.
Hi Mary, wanted to say "thank-you" again for commenting on my blog; I replied to it on my blog but now that I think about it that doesn't make much sense. Please attribute that to blogger newbieness :-)
ReplyDeleteI agree, some group projects can cause much anxiety; especially if the work is unevenly distributed or all members have a tight schedule. Albeit the former is untrue for my group and the latter we combated with the aid of a spreadsheet(a product that Caitlyn took the initiative in tackling), we seem to have built a good level of camaraderie for such a small time of knowing each other. But the true joy of it, I would think, is being able to mesh one's ideas with others; as you might say, enjoy the unknown finish product and journey of the art involved.