UAF - Advanced Prototype Evaluation

Because the PIR sensors were unable to be implemented into UAF, the final stages that will be shown in this journal will be considered as an "advanced prototype" of the original proposal, that has the majority of elements the original plan detailed, but during implementation, some may have had to be removed.

Here is the finished result...





This artefact differs from the proposal only slightly, in where the idea that the user would not be able to directly interact with the piece, had to be removed because of the problems with the PIR sensors. Other than this, the piece pictured above follows the proposal almost perfectly, the only difference being the user will have to directly interact with the object, but still feel the satisfaction of using it.

I feel the fan still has the "unusual" characteristics that were listed in the proposal and where the idea for UAF stemmed from. This piece is a much more of an "obediant" house fan (rather than a "dominant", or "bossy" fan), that users have to interact with directly in order to get it to change, and such things as programs and speed settings associated with regular fans have been completley removed.

In regards to what has been accomplished in this project, the majority of same components were used as were listed in the proposal, the code is all contained on the Arduino and the Arduino powers all of the components via a single mains power cable, making the UAF a self-contained unit as was planned.