Internship week 3

Third week at NUS KEIO CUTE Center. Things that i have been required to do just gets more and more difficult. From learning how to program a new microcontroller board to basic and simple application and game creation, allowing me to learn many things which i missed out in my education at SP.

Since last week, i have completed my prototype with the materials i bought. i decided to do a leather strap which i super glued together. The result was however not that satisfactory as the strap would split open upon excessive bending thus i have decided the only way to make it better would be to sew the two pieces of cloth together. That wold be the only way to beautify it yet make it durable to the excessive bending.

Last week i used the Stencyl game creator to start on a basic game however the graphics of the platform was clearly created for the production of 2D retro games such as Mario and games like Angry Birds which was not something i wanted cause it would be quite useless to purchase a gadget to play such games thus i decided to download Unity 3D game creator as it provides games tutorials to beginners in game developments which are quite easy to follow. They also provide you with assets from their library to help in the process of game creation. I also intend to create a simple FPS game to show how this product can be used for it.

I also went ahead to purchase the various devices and equipment i needed for the project online. I ordered an 1.8 inch TFT LCD display and a USB Bluetooth 4.0 dongle from Adafruit, an US supplier for such components. The screen would be another feature of the watch, and i decided to use this screen as there were many tutorials online from the supplier website too which would make the programming and installation much more efficient. The dongle would be the device in which would connect the Rfduino the any desktop or laptop which thw user would be using,

The longer i work in NUS, the more i find that a researcher job is actually quite interesting an fun at the same time. The product or device you create is like another identity of yourself. It all depends on what you want to put in the device. You can make it very simple which results in no USP for the device. You must also put yourself in the shoes of the user to think for their uses and application and whether it would be comfortable and at the same time useful for them to use the product that you create. You must also keep the cost of the components cheap so that the final production cost is cheap and that would result in a more competitive market pricing for the product in that specific market.