Final straw

Hello nerds! hehe We are currently planning for the Cut Now section of our DEVIANT application. We booked an appointment with Mr. Poh, our CNC Milling Machine TSO to review our instructions from the Start Project to Work Origin. And concurrently, refresh our memory on the fabrication settings and safety precautions that we should take note.

The consultation session was refreshing and useful as my team, and I were determined and eager to complete the project smoothly, and at the same time also hitting our supervisors and co-supervisors expectations and requirements.

With that, I was enthusiastic to finish the Cut Now Script as soon as possible, before I lose touch and possibly forgetting small essential details.

And also 2D animations for a small part in the Cut Now section.

We also needed to reiterate all the Creo animations as we decided to do the assemblies in Inventor, to have a more accurate placement for the animations. So the process will be from Autodesk Inventor as an assembly file (.iam), straight to Creo Illustrate to execute the animations.

Vuforia Studio was re-done; to version 3. HAHA, We are halfway there, and with the Inventor assemblies and Creo animations done. We can start to work on Vuforia Studio right away.

Despite all the workload that we all already have, the planning and flow of the slides are still on-going. We also asked Ms. Wong Kwee Yin for her advice on how to present our Program Flow Chart. We will update you on our progress next week. Thanks for reading, and I will see you next week. - Ashley

Project In Film: Engineering Show

Here's an update of the new version of DEVIANT.

The changes in this new & improved version may not be drastic but it provides a better experience for the user. The main difference between the previous versions was, in this new version, you may notice, in one AR experience, there are multiple sets of instructions. As compared to the older version, there were multiple instructions in between AR experience. The feedback given was it was very disruptive and the loading time between each detection was taking too long to load.

With this new change, it slowed down our progress by so much. On top of completing DEVIANT, we were also tasked to create a short clip of our project for the upcoming Engineering Show in January! So many things to do but so little time.

Despite being notified last minute, we still managed to plan, film and edit. We even managed to submit our video in the nick of time! Since this video was only a minute long, we looked on social media platform to get inspiration and we really liked how Casey Chan, also known as @chanmanprod, on Instagram, filmed his ad with McDonald's. It was short, simple and he portrayed the burger so well it made me drool. Before we began filming, we created a written storyboard to have a better idea of what we wanted to film.

Once the planning was done, we gathered all our items and started the filming process. During the filming process, we tried to recreate a similar concept and similar cinematography that Casey had. However, since the video was a minute long, we 'rent able to recreate the video exactly like how Casey had done his. Nonetheless, I was really happy with how the video turned out! It was well edited and filmed! It was a team effort from start until the end that I was thrilled with how it was produced! If you haven't seen our video, this is how it looks! Enjoy!

All the best & See you!

Week 15: Starting From Scratch?

Heyyo everyone!!!

Welcome back to this week’s blog post. Hope everyone is coping well with studies and all!! If you’re not coping well like myself, don’t be afraid to take a break and step away from what you’re working on currently. Take the time to recollect your mind & plan out so that when you come back to it, you’ll have a clearer focus on the things that are needed to be done.

Updates for the week:

Based on last week’s feedback session with our two supervisors, Mr Poh and Mr David, regarding our DEVIANT application, my group and I have decided to scrap the current version of the application and start again from the beginning. If you’re confused as to why we are scraping our current version of the application, don’t worry because I’ll be explaining it further below.

So, now back to the process of starting from “scratch” for our DEVIANT application. After having use Vuforia Studio for almost 2 months, I found that redoing most of the Vuforia Studio Experience from scratch was easier compared to removing the unwanted portions from the current Experience itself. The reason why I felt so was because:

Firstly, this is partly due to the poor user experience design of Vuforia Studio where the software only allow users to remove items/files one at a time which is time-consuming instead of allowing them to select multiple files and delete it all at one.

Second, the way we named the files used inside the current version of DEVIANT was also partly why we decided to start all over again. Since most of the programming codes used inside DEVIANT requires the program to call out the file by their names, meant that inconsistent naming of the files would require additional work to tweak the program codes just so that the program is able to call out a specific file.