4/16/19 - Classes w/ Nimesha


Last Thursday, Nimesha introduced us to his work and his values as a designer. He showed us his virtual cocktail and his device to include more sensory information with VR. He told us that the concept holds more value and slowly working to achieve our long term goals holds more value over getting projects done.

 While I do not disagree with this, I did not originally have a long term goal in mind for this project anyway. Nimesha suggested that I use my companion robot idea and turn it into a companion that can imitate those who are lost, like pets or grandparents. I don't really...morally agree with this idea? I think death is a thing that shouldn't be tampered with, and bringing dead loved ones back to life with a robot seems a little too intense and crosses some natural boundaries.

Today, the 16th, Nimesha didn't have an actual plan for us to go over. He seemed more interested in other students that happened to be in the hackerspace that was working on other projects. You told us that he would have an actual plan, but he has admitted to us that he was just making it up as he goes and hasn't had a real lesson plan for us.

I've started to do initial prototyping with the Arduino but I will have to buy some supplies and talk to the hackerspace and figure out if I can get the parts I need. I still need to do some research on what material I want my pet to be constructed of as well.

It seems in college in general, professors are way too focused on achieving the impossible than teaching us the skills we need to achieve the possible. My bad for not going to trade school I guess? If I have to hear the word elevator pitch one more time I will throw a fit. I can't just go beyond the scope of reality when I've never been properly taught how to use these technologies. Going from basics to extremes on my own isn't acceptable. My focus is on art. I don't care about physical computing, I don't want to do physical computing, I LEFT computer engineering so I wouldn't have to do these things, but all I've done is coding and computing. If I could actually use this to make art I would but that doesn't meet the requirements to get good grades nor respect.

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