Idea
Our assignment during the first week was to think up a final project, and design it in as many platforms as possible.
So here's the thing - I miss my partner. We've been dating for five years, and are now long-distance; she lives in New York, while I'm here in Cambridge. So I wanted to create something to give her that would make her feel physically close to me.
My idea is to give her something like a "Cuckoo Clock" - I could send a message to her little birdhouse, which would then light up, make a sound, raise a flag, reveal the bird, and print out the message on receipt paper.
So let's give designing that a go!
The first step is to start sketching it out. I don't have a ton of experience thinking about the internals or the proper layout for things, but I made my best attempt to think about the housing. I then wanted to try to better understand the steps required for each part:
I broke out every section and divided them into sub-steps to accomplish. Now it was time to try to put together a design.