After the success of documenting my work throughout the Zoom Phase I am disappointed to realise that I have all but stopped writing about what I’m actually doing or the thought processes I have been going through.

Just now a lot of my time has (stupidly) been spent working with some of the others on advertising material for our Degree show Fundraisers (‘Tache Bash for those not in the know). Whilst it is entirely necessary (and important) to make sure this is a busy event so that we can benefit as much as possible from ticket sales I have to remember that my degree is paramount.

I had intended on trying to catch up with my uni work tonight but I’m struggling to find something useful I can do. Recently I’ve been building and fine-tuning my iPhone app while I wait for components to be delivered. Once said components are here I can try my hand at building some of the tripod system; I can’t wait to be able to have all the elements connect together (albeit maybe crudely). For Make Part 1 I’m intending on having (basic) functionality and connectivity between elements which demonstrate the key interactions of the project.

Make Part 2 will build upon what I achieve in Part 1 and polish everything up. I really want the system to actually work even if it is not built to look like the final product; i.e: a prototype tripod which records realtime video which the iPhone app then picks up on and can be used to watch back the video (it’d be awesome if the users could also then post it to their Facebook or similar - maybe too much effort, could be a demonstration feature or something on a board or video). If I can get these two elements working then having a website which also interacts with the recorded data will just be a matter of data crunching and time spent on design elements - the back-end will practically already be there.

Excellent, now I just need a name for the whole project; any ideas?

This is the result of seven hours worth of work with the IMD PR team for our upcoming fundraising event, ‘tache bash (Twitter and Facebook - please follow and if you’re Dundee based come to the event!). They need to go to print by 10am tomorrow (this?) morning with half the class not having seen the final products. Obviously we could only photograph the people left at the end of the meeting but the plan is to have a poster for each of us for use all around campus.

Let’s hope there isn’t a huge amount of damage controlling to do amongst those who didn’t bother themselves to come at all.