Saturday, March 1, 2008

Week 8: Open House!

The open house was a blast, Team 22 really pulled it together to create a good looking display (pictures below) despite our poster having been printed with the wrong font.

The prototype was polished first with emery cloth (to remove all the burrs) then sandpaper (600, 400, 200 and then 120) and finally was polished with Brasso.

We had 2 laptops on our display table, one had a slide show going with several different 3D renders of our centerpiece (appearance model) and one had our flash interface (computer simulation) that users could interact with. The physical model was also on the table as well as our higher fidelity paper model. The physical model had a speaker in it as well as the wireless leaf that was attached to the surrounding wall. The users could control the interface which controlled the music that could be heard through the speakers.

All of the comments can be found Here
Summary of comments:
- The audience wanted more control over the music (equalizer).
- The audience really liked the shape and the look of it.
- Concerns that the target market is too narrow.
- There is already established brands which people recognize as "hi-fi" systems and speakers
- The audience wanted to be able to hook up their own playlists to the system







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