18/10/2018

We are not only excited to share further refinements and changes we had made for Squeeze KL, but also we were excited to pitch this new "jack-in-the-box" -also known as Crank With Your Friends - idea to our fellow friends and lecturers after countless hours of brainstorming and planning. We are so confident about our new idea to the point we are putting too much work to it, losing our core experience and what kind of feedback we expect from our users. As a result, Crank With Your Friends is completely rejected.

There is a good news to this because now we just had to focus completely on Squeeze KL and see what and how we can make this idea work.

After critique session, we gathered and discussed about future plans. We came to realisation that our project is very experimental and we might want to make a few (or many) changes along the way. But for now, we need to consider:

• what materials we can use for this project?
• what kind of sensors and where to place them?
• what is the user flow? (the detailed plan for input, processing, and output)
• what are the measurements to consider?
• etc...

We spent about half a day discussing and preparing what to bring or show by next class.

22/10/2018

So on this day, we brought 2 kinds of sponge (medium and hard), some stitched clothing, one with cotton already stuffed inside - the stitched clothing are for building prototypes. I gave a quick test amongst our friends to pick which of the three - medium sponge, hard sponge and cotton - is the most enjoyable material to be squeezed. We expected people to pick the hard sponge however everyone seemed to enjoy the medium sponge more, which means we just need to spend less money now.

So with that pretty much settled, Ang decided to practice using the sewing machine whilst I, Wilson, wanted to practice his coding by trying out implementing Arduino with a LED strip.

This part of the project is much more enjoyable that the previous weeks as now we don't have to CRANK our brains to come up with any new ideas.

And for the moment, this is how our setup will look like more or less.

We talked with one of our lecture, Ron, and discussed what is the best sensor out of all the sensors that we had thought about. He suggested using a load sensor that comes with the HX711 converter first before trying other sensor alternatives since it's cheap and flexible to use.

An alternative will be using a barometer pressure sensor - detects atmospheric pressure changes - which also can still work for our project.