Expect the unexpected
October 17, 2008
Today has been a productive day, even though our patience has been tested. I keep on getting surprised all the time during this project, since parts that I assumed would be really hard goes extremely smooth and some tasks I thought would be easy-style turns out to be really tricky.
For example we (Harald, Fred and Fred) built our podium yesterday, which went much more fast than I would have thought. But today we tried to get our ultra sonic sensors into the podium and running, which at some points seemed completely unpossible. Anyhow, everything is working now, we just need to make up a really good code that will create the feeling of control over the lights.
Another thing that really tests your patience is all of the unexpected things that keeps on happening. Yesterday we handed in our article about another group in the Stockholm class, just before deadline. Today it turned out that they wanted to change their concept, which meant that we had to re-write the whole thing. Thanks to our exellent market-responsible Fred Weinestad, this was no problem, but still. You just can’t predict everything, that’s definitely something I’ve learned during this module. The only thing you can do is to expect the unexpected, and leave space in your time schedule for those things.
During the past week I have learned some new stuff that I didn’t expect to learn; connecting leds with wire, and making up code! This was really awesome, and not at all as dificult that I thought it would be.
I’m really sorry about my poor english, but I’m really tired right now and the part of my brain that forms delicious sentences and comes up with accurate words isn’t at it’s full capacity right now. So this is goodbye, I wish myself and all of you who read this a really nice week-end!
Over n’ out!
// Sanna
