High five! The LFST is alive!! After reconsidering our design for last week we came up with a slimmed down, less tank-like version. What we seem to have made instead is a little alien creature with some interesting personality traits...here is a video from about 11:30 PM last Wednesday of our little guy:
This was the first time I had ever made something that seemed to be an entity all by itself once it was plugged into an electrical source. It was really exciting and kind of changed the way I feel about design and creation. Instead of trying to make a very specific thing with the exact attributes that you want you can make something and then let it tell you what you have made...Karl basically said the same thing during some of the presentations and I wouldn't have really believed it until this project was done. This also hits on my weaknesses thus far in Smart Surfaces.
I always want to have a plan that we can all stick to and follow because I thought it would make things more efficient. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't, but maybe being super-efficient isn't always better. Letting something that follow the basic criteria grow organically was really rewarding and the level of excitement after our solar tracker started moving was amazing.
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