45-ZOR

CHECK THIS OUT :D
Doesn't it look exaclty like our environment of 45-ZOR?!?

(Made by Frederic Edwin Church, and the painting is called Cotopaxi)

Dream Exquis

hey, I had a project related dream so I thought it would be nice to share it with you ;-)

in my dream, we had to stop with the project. We were only allowed to do the exhibition, but the government didn't want us to continue. This was because our project outcomes would be so awesome it would cause a riot in the street. None of the now popular products would be sold anymore, and because the government has great interest in those products we weren't allowed to continue the project. Pretty neat huh?

It was very cool and frustrating at the same time. I was pretty reluctant once I woke up and it all turned out to be a dream.

Ow, and I fixed the Q learning code and made a library. It still needs some fine-tuning, but it works.

Business aspects

It is nice to see the progress in the technology aspects of the project, but another very important aspect is the business aspect. How and to whom will the product be sold and how will it be produced? I’ll try to keep it short and clear.

First of all, we made three personas to get a grip on what kind of persons will buy our product. We got a very successful businessman, a little girl and an old man. They all have different motives of buying and collecting the Cadavre Exquis Robots. I will quickly go through them. The businessman buys them for his kids, as he is away from home very often and has to travel a lot for his work. He always brought the cliché presents, like an Eiffel tower keychain when he went to Paris, but after getting to know our product he promised his kids to bring parts of this robot every time he came back. The persona of the little girl comes from a small village in Iowa and likes to collect bugs and play outside. She asks family to bring parts when they come to visit. She mostly likes the story behind them and the differences between good & evil. Last but not least is the old man. As a retired man he has a lot of time on his hands, so he likes to travel with his wife. He has been a technical engineer in his old days and still likes technical products, for example, he has the whole attic with things like miniature steam engines. He likes the technical movement of the creatures and the cultural background within each part.

Some other techniques applied are among others the Value Ladder, Technology Tree, Key Buying Factors and a suggested Partnership & Supply Chain table. The Value Ladder gives information on which function supplies which value, for example the functional property of Actuators will eventually give the Value of entertainment. The technology tree will give information on which parts have to be made, with what techniques they can be made and if there are any supporting technology. For example, the connection units are a Product Function, which will be produced by Milling or Molding, while the supporting technology of this piece is Computer Aided Design (CAD). The Key Buying Factors are different factors which are divided into three groups: Qualifiers, Winners and Differentiators. Qualifying factors are those that make sure our product can survive in the market, while Winning factors are those that make it better than all the rest. At last there are the Differentiating factors, which actually make sure that the product stays a winner over time by changing certain elements, staying ahead of competition.

We also made a Roadmap of the product to have a look into the possible future. I added a few pictures of the techniques.

Receive Library tutorial

as i promised: the two libraries for the pulsernet and a tutorial of how to use it.

-------RECIEVING

The library for the recieving of values which have been sended by the pulsernet can be found here.

to use it, first extrude the .rar in your arduino/libraries folder.

Start your arduino and import the library. This can be done in the menu: sketch / import library

If you extracted your library in the right folder, it should say: PulsernetRecieve.
If you click that the library is imported.

Then create an instance of the receive class by creating a code like:

Receive /name/ ( /number of receiving pin/ );

for instance:

Receive mailbox(7);

I am receiving the values on pin nr 7 and i call the receiver mailbox from now on.

then cal your normal voids, and an integer to set the value to.

int value;

void setup()

{

}

void loop()

{

now in this loop you only need to set the received value to your integer.

value = mailbox.Value();

}

now every time a value will be recieved, the value of your integer will change to that value.

-------SENDING

The library for the sending of values over the pulsernet can be found here.

to use it, first extrude the .rar in your arduino/libraries folder.

Start your arduino and import the library. This can be done by opening the menu: sketch / import library. If you extracted the library properly it should say PulsernetSend. If you click that the library is included.

Then create an instance of the send class by creating a code

Send

/name/

(

/number of receiving pin/

);

for instance:

Send mailman(13);

I am receiving the values on pin nr 13 and i call the sender mailman from now on.

then cal your normal voids.

void setup()

{

}

void loop()

{

now in this loop all you need to do is send the value you want to send with your sender:

mailman.Sender(15);

}

we are now sending the value 15 to the other arduino with the pulsernet. Of course you can also insert a variable instead of a real value.

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if there are any questions or problems with these libraries, send me an email or just ask

Thank god for.. ADSL?

Because the previous version of internet was way too slow (1 phone number in 40 seconds) the scientists redesigned the internet.

The system no longer works with bites, but with pulses:

if it wants to send an 7, it turns its digital gate to high, waits 7 milliseconds and then turns it to low again.
This way it was now possible to send a full phone number in 440 milliseconds!

So now we are able to send all the stuff we need at the speeds we need. There is no limit of digits anymore, but values below 100 get send fastest (because it works with delays; 123 = 123 milliseconds)

I will upload the libraries for sending and receiving as soon as possible.

physical connection model

Check out the new model for the physical connection thingy. It actually conducts!

3D-cadavres

Yeah! We made some 3D-cadavres and they rock! See them shine in their natural habitat.

Next to the fact that they're so cool, we actually learned some stuff from making them: We should take the balance of the creature into account (especially when designing the head) and for the first time the idea of having moving parts on the torso occurred to us.

We're definitely gonna do more of these.