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ThE Bomb Dot Kom

Team Members: Tal Kasher, Emily Baumstark, Briana Shull, David Watkins, and Kenny Bouknight

First Update

October 5 ,2014

ThE Bomb Dot Kom met for the first time and began to brainstorm. We came up with an idea for an interactive coloring book, and we also came up with our team name. We are sorry about the video being sideways; we will fix this next time.

ThE Bomb Dot Kom met for the second time and began to narrow our ideas. We decided how we are going to set up the display and the pictures we are going to use. We also have already found a problem with our circuit, so we began to brainstorm on how we might go about solving this.  

Second Update

October 15, 2014

October 29, 2014

ThE Bomb Dot Kom met for the third time, and we began to put our ideas into action. We drew out our illustrations, and we also attempted to begin writing a basic prototype for our program. We came across some problems, but we are ready to fix them.

THIRD UPDATE

 

We drew out the pictures that we wanted to use. We also realized that we would not be able to get all of the appropriate colors in LEDs, so we decided to color in the pictures instead. This was not ideal because it took away from the coloring book idea; the pictures are now going to be colored in ahead of time. However, we are going to work with the best that we have and continue to adapt. We have a rough sketch of what our program is going to look like, but we realize that there are going to be more problems in the future. We realized that we were going to need some outside help.

SEVENTH UPDATE

 

  • This is the final video of the project. It shows the final result and all of the LEDs working when the correct answer in inputted. When we met this time, we assembled everything and tested it. At first it did not work for silver, but we discovered that it was because it had a bad ground connection. Once we fixed that simple problem, everything worked, and we were ready to present. 

FORTH UPDATE

 

We finally made some physical headway on this project and we got the pictures drawn on the Plexiglas and a trifold made that explains our project. This helped us get a better idea of what we are going to work with when it comes to completing the project. The trifold will help the user understand what the display table is for, and if they get stuck in the tutorial, then it has the answers on the trifold for what numbers correspond with the different colors. We have a better version of code, and we are ready to move forward. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIFTH UPDATE

 

In part one, we explain our code. We have made progress on this, but we are still having problems with it. We have come to the realization that we are going to need more help from outside sources. We went to Daniel Pade, a local PhD student and lecturer for CSCE 145 in the University’s computer science department. He helped us in the creation of the method that we continually call throughout the code, which is discussed in more detail later in this paper. In part 2, we have cut out our cardboard boxes so we will be able to assemble everything the next time that we meet. We cut out the dividers for each individual box, and we made them shallow so the light could be closer behind the pictures that are drawn on the Plexiglas.  

SIXTH UPDATE

 

This is a demonstration of the working code. If we input the correct answers, the LED lights up, but if we input the wrong answers, it continues to ask the same question until we get it right. This makes us ready to assemble everything and complete the project. We will just need to extend the LEDs with wire and glue all of the cardboard together to make the foundation. 

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