I don't know if other groups feel the same way, but it seems like this task is really draining to ours. We are supposed to make an item that will track the sun, indicate when it has located the sun, and involves biomimicry. It is supposed to rotate on at least 2 axes and should have personality. I thought being unconfined was hard for the last design, but having a forced operation is proving to be more difficult. It seems even worse because I feel like we have to fudge a way to put biomimcry in the design. I guess we get to define the function of our design, but when it has to involve tracking light it limits the functions that would make sense to use.
There are a lot of interesting creatures that use light in peculiar ways such as the window plant that uses crystals to guide light down from its flat top down to its roots. This led us to think about using fiber optics, but they proved to be too expensive and difficult to obtain for our project...not sure where we are going to go with our project at this point.
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