This week I worked on the ethics assignment, met with my team for initial testing and integration, and continued working on my projection code.
The ethics assignment was designed to get us to think about what kind of impacts our project might have in society or the environment. Even a seemingly harmless system like ours that is designed to solve a puzzle can have some kind of harmful effect. It was interesting to read about the hidden effects of a design in Winner’s article.
During our meeting with the professor and TA, we received feedback on our design report. For our final report, we should focus on our writing and expressing our idea better. During the week, we also met up to connect all our peripherals to the Raspberry Pi and run some of our preliminary code on it. I was able to test my projection code and it worked well. We did not yet have our capacitive touch sensor working, so the projection was designed to work only with keyboard and mouse. I was able to write some code that will include signals from the MPR121 (touch sensor), which I will have to test as soon as the touch sensor is operational.