The purpose of the daily post is to document the progress for the day. You will do this through the following post types:

Updates

In the Updates tab, each team member should post images of the work they completed over the course of the day. This includes ideas that came out of your mind - sketches, images of prototypes, renders or screenshots of digital designs, storyboards, etc. Every image must have a Title and Caption. See the example in the Gallery of this post.

Title - What is the image of? Be specific in terms of the version and content.
ex - Shade prototype 1,  Initial storyboard, 3D Model of Shade Connection.

Caption - What aspect of your design process does the image capture and how did it inform your process?  
ex - Exploring mobility of hexagons. We noticed that in order to raise the shade, many hexagons would need to become trapezoids.

Precedents

Precedent research is a fundamental part of the creative process, providing context, inspiration, and technical guidance. It is work that came out of someone else's mind. In the Precedents Tab, each team member should post precedents applicable to the current stage of design. While you need not have a new precedent every day, be sure to include them each time you make substantive technical or design changes.

You can read more about Precedents here.

Things to consider:

• Each precedent should have its own post.
• Each image should have a title and caption saying what the image is and attributing the source.
• Each precedent should have 1-2 sentences explaining how the precedent is applicable to your project.

Thesis: We are making sensory boards for High Horses to help with occupational therapy. Our goal is to make a sensory board to help someone open a bottle cap. We have different sized caps with different handles on the top to help them open it, they can start on the easiest one and work their way down to the hardest one. Inside the bottles will be a prize like a candy or toy so they will want to open it.

Feedback: Some feedback that we got was that we should add more color to make it more interesting and inviting, we also need to add directions so people know what they need to do.

Next Steps: Our next steps are to laser cut directions into it so people know what they need to do, paint the bottles and caps to make it more interesting, and connect the caps and strings to the board so they don't fall off. 

Thesis: My project is a therapeutic sensory board, assisting people in opening caps on bottles of different shapes and sizes and levels of difficulty. Ours helps people with opening circular container caps, which if you think about it you do every day, so it will definitely help people become more independent. This relates to our prompt because it is used to help people become more independent. Ours helps people with opening circular container caps, which if you think about it you do every day, so it will definitely help people become more independent.

Feedback from high horses: We got lots of positive feedback about our project, but one of the things we were told to work on is to make the boards more colorful and inviting for people to use. The other feedback we received was to have  simple directions on our project so that people who might not understand the point of it when they see it will instantly know what it is. 

Next Steps: My next step is to laser cut directions, something like an arrow right next to the cap moving in the way you have to turn the cap. My next action is to paint the caps different colors, to make the board more welcoming for someone to use it.

My project is supposed to help people feel more independent by paying for things themselves by finding the right coin and then putting it in the coin box. My project works by putting the right coin in the slot and it pushes open the door which gets the person a reward.

 Some feedback I collected was to attach the project together with more durable materials than tape. Other feedback I received was to figure out how to open the coin box to get the used coins.

 The next steps would be to wood glue it together and to put hinges on the door.

My project is a sensory board to help people with hand-eye fine motor control and gross motor control. This project fits the prompt because of its strong, fun, engaging, and simple to learn. My project is all about turning nobs to make it easier for people to use nobs gradually this is important because the main idea of this project was to turn stove nobs so that they can cook without burning the house down

The feedback I got was very helpful was told that if I put soft material under the board so that the electronics and the wood are not just on their legs all this feedback was from Susan Miller.

After this class ends I am going to make this project more complicated and more comfortable to use. I m going to make it have rester so that it can sit on your lap while you're riding the horse.

Thesis: Over the course of the past few weeks, I have been improving and prototyping my project, to ensure the final product will be durable, engaging, and fun. I have built a sensory tool, that will help an individual become independent, through an athletic approach, to build dexterity, gross-motor, fine-motor, and hand-eye coordination skills.

Construction Process: As shown in the photos, my project has evolved dramatically. In photo one, my project is very fragile, the cardboard bends and the legs fall off. So, to fix this misstep, cardboard was added to the very bottom, under the styrofoam, and thick wooden dowels were fixed to the underside of the top cardboard, these corrections are shown in photo two. This was my second design, and after further renovations, I came to my final design and was ready to construct the final product (photo 3). First, I drilled holes in a wood frame, as the cardboard in the first photo. The holes are to attach the stretchy cloth, shown in photo five, with the nuts and bolts in photo four, to the wooden frame. Next, I cut thicker wooden dowels as the legs. These legs, shown in photo six, are screwed to the wooden frame, making them a strong, hardy, perfect fit for the end product. In photo seven, the positioning shows how the finished tool would have looked if it were finished. As a finishing touch, I put targets to add more levels of play, to make the tool more like a game. 

Feedback: After I presented at High Hoses, I received feedback that would further improve my project. One idea that was pointed out is how the ball bouncing back at the rider and horse could present an issue. It was suggested that the ball and the stretchy cloth could have Velcro, so the ball would not bounce back at the user. This could prevent stressful situations. I also got suggested to have a bucket to put different size balls in. I really like the idea of a progression for varied sizes of  balls, and maybe even different shapes.

Next Steps and Significance: Overall if I had more time I would have spent more time to add grommets around the holes in the stretchy fabric to prevent further ripping that could result in the material breaking. I would also continue to finish my project, and apply the feedback from high horses. The goal of my project was to give a patient at high horses the confidence and skill to go and play a sport that they have wanted to, by building up the necessary skill to excel at any sport.