Final Design Review

After a long and arduous journey, we have completed our final design review. All in all, it went pretty well. We had a very professional and enticing poster layout, a polished and creative final exhibit, and I think we did a good job connecting the exhibit to the SLO community. we received many compliments on the professional look of our posters thanks to Matt's background in graphic communications. However, our lack of a tangible model may have made our exhibit seem less enticing to the visiting panel of experts.

Eric from SLO-RESCO gave us some great pointers on how our exhibit could be taken to the next level. He pointed out that one of the major criticisms of wind energy is its intermittency. By adding another module dedicated to wind storage, we could help make the SLO community aware of the criticisms of wind energy as well as present the new technological developments to overcome them. All in all, this class has been a great experience, and I hope it gets offered again in the future. But in the words of the great YouTube poet Rebecca Black, "It's Friday! Friday! Gotta get down on Friday! Everybody's looking forward to the weekend!" Indeed, every member of the Whirligigs is looking forward to the much needed weekend.

Cheers,

Lord Stanley of Yorkshire

LAST CLASS

Last class before the final design review!
We still need to put together the final poster. Some items that we discussed to put on the poster are:

• Learning objectives
• Signage
• A night shot
• A view of a different configuration of the exhibit to show its modularity

Also, the poster is divided into one main summary poster, with two supporting panels on each side. Each supporting panel will show each modules in detail and the interactions between the user. 

The module with the chimes is being changed to a horizontal bicycle wheel that will be rotated by a a generator. A still mallet will hit the spokes on the wheel as the wheel turns, which will make noise. 

Sadly, there will be no physical model for the final presentation. :[