HA5 Task 8 - Review

Brief

The units brief was easy to understand as we all have seen many like it, and began to understand early on what they said as they are straight forward, but the unit broke down into 8 tasks, some done as homework and the rest in lesson, like most units.

Task 1 - Project Charter

The project charter would be used every lesson so we could write down what and how out progress into the unit has gone, and therefore eventually help us write this, the review. the project charter also helped us keep in mind, how much progress we have made, and on our own made decisions to see if this lesson enough was done if not, some more will have to be completed at home. The charter would include dates and some informative notes on everything, to help us remember what is needed to be done, and what can be improved upon.

Task 2 - Schedule

The project schedule will also be a big help in telling us what will need to be done, what can be done, and what is done. Helping us yet again write the review and also helping us keep track of our work, and writing down the smallest details in the boxes given could help us; figure out a week later what is needed of a certain task.

Task 3 - Research

This task would include our own home-done-work, where we would go onto the internet and surf to find anything on helping us create a robotic sidekick of our own. This research would include us gaining pictures of known and famous robots throughout film, TV and games. And maybe giving us ideas to use in our next task.

Task 4 - Ideas Generation

This task was also done at home, after the research is complete this task was easier as with our heads filled with ideas, from famous robots and our own. this task was simple, write ideas down on a piece of paper that a robot could do or need such as power, weapons and jobs it can do for us as a sidekick could do.

Task 5 - Design Pack

this task wasn't easy for me as if cannot draw very well but with the lines, included on the paper, giving us a pretty good idea on the scale and accurate drawings we could do of the models.

Task 6 - Production

This task wasn't straight forward for me as it wasn't for most, but during our lessons we did some tutorials and after lessons I would sometime make a house or a tree at home with the knowledge that I gained for these tutorials. Keeping me sharp and helping me get to know the tools as I went along. Adding all this to a file and checking in on it every lesson helped us with older tools we had forgotten about since we haven’t used them in some time.

Task 7 – Presentation

The presentation, was simple to do add the finished work onto a blog post, with would include finished rendered images of the final model and maybe some text alongside, explaining the model and its features.

Conclusion

This unit so far was my favourite as we got to design our very own robotic sidekick that could be in our minds for some time, and maybe one day in the future become real, or scan it into a 3D printer and make it a sculpture. (Another thing I learned on a past unit)