Design Research Skills

Maker Skills and Attitude

Collaborative Learning

This week I worked with Anna on the assignment. We have both completed several projects together.
I know exactly what Anna's strengths and weaknesses are as she knows mine. That's why this project was very pleasant to carry out.
Anna thinks more conceptually and I think more about how we can put the project into a form.

During the project work we were able to find compromises and decisions together very well.
There was a minor "point of contention", because Anna wanted to ask about the gender. And I found a scaling in 5 steps between male and female very inappropriate, we discussed a lot. In the end I decided to simply follow this idea, to see what the outcome would be and if this information gathering could lead to a discussion.

We wanted to find out what people have to be like in order for our fellow students to want to work with them.
To do this, we put different pairs of values on a disc. Between these values are 5 metal pins that allow a kind of classification between these two extremes or a decision for one extreme.

Results and plot party

small lettering 0.05 interval & 45 power
big lettering 1 interval & 35 power

different sizes of holes for the screws: 2.75 was perfect for 3 mm screws

This week I could learn a lot about finetuning the lasercutter for certain purposes.

For example, you need a lot of time for our desired type of engraving, because the very low interval value of the lasercutter ensures that the laser can only work very slowly.

It was also interesting to see how MDF behaves when you screw it into the material. If the "pre-drilled" holes were only slightly too small, the rotation of the screw destroyed the MDF. Therefore it was especially important to find a good size for the screws.

Especially the engraving around the screws was an additional pain point, because the " disc " around the pre-drilled hole could be removed very easily.