What Happens Now?

This past week, I presented my final "product" in my anatomy and physiology class. In the end, I didn't really have a final product that was put together, but I had most of the separate parts all thought out and developed. I didn't really get to what I had initially planned to do at the beginning of the project. A lot of the reason for this was because I had a hard time learning to do some things, and some other parts took longer that I had expected. I wasn't able to reach my goals because I did not know what to expect as I went through the process. Although I didn't reach my initial goal, I learned a lot about myself. I thought I was better at managing time, but I really wasn't. I'm also not as patient as I originally thought I was. Through experimenting with Tinkercad, it proved more difficult than expected. After going through this process, questions arose. It made me wonder how long it takes for other people to invent and develop things for them to be used. We see so many new products out there, but we don't really know how much time and effort it took to come up with that idea and make it sell-able. If I were to do this again, I would probably reach out to more people for help. I think there are so many more resources out there that I could have utilized, but didn't. I also would have spent more time thinking of how to work Tinkercad and try to print out a couple designs to see how to make them better. If I did that, I might have been able to have a product in hand to show the class.

During the TED Talk presentation, I was really nervous. Ever since I was younger, I always hated talking in front of the class. The night before, I was rehearsing, but couldn't think of the right words to use for a lot of what I wanted to express. I didn't want to include too many words on my power point so people don't get distracted from what I am saying, but that meant I had to remember everything that I needed to say. I was kind of disappointed with my performance because I had forgotten to mention a few things that I had planned to. Up until right before the actual presentation, I was anxious and stressing out about the presentation, however, when I went up there, I just went with the flow and it didn't seem as bad as I had anticipated. I was so relieved when the whole thing was over.

Overall, I thought that this was a good experience. I didn't really like the fact that there wasn't really any structure to the 20 Time. I understand that this is a big part of 20 Time, but it was a little difficult for me to keep myself on track and in the direction I wanted to go. If we had the whole year to do this, I think a lot of the other students, me included, would have been able to more easily reach their goals, and maybe even exceed them.

Making Progress in Tinkercad

After several hours of playing around with Tinkercad, I finally sort of figured out how to use it. There were lots of struggles accidents when I was using it. I accidentally deleted some things sometimes, and other times I would move things to places that they aren't supposed to be going. I managed to make something that may work for the final product. The knobs on the piece need to be fixed and straightened up, but at the moment, this is not  the main problem. However, up to this point, this is the main part of the prototype that I have been developing and trying to design.

I feel like this project has made a little turn, since I initially thought that I would have physical prototypes starting from the beginning, but I realized that making the designs for the prototypes take much longer than expected.

In the coming weeks, I am considering possibly printing the object out depending on circumstances and working from there.