In this project, myself, Natalie, Paula and Rena made an electric house with 4 rooms which had a series circuit and a parallel circuit. Throughout this experience, we face many problems and obstacles but we mainly decided to focus on the wires and how we can find a way using technology to organise them.

This is the define, dream, deliver, and debrief process for our electric house problems :

Define

While me and my group were adding the wires around the house, we found that the wires would often get tangled together which made it very difficult to stay organised and keep on top of our work. This made it hard for us to follow the wires to the light bulbs because we frequently would get the wires mixed up with each other which held us back to finish this project efficiently and in an organised fashion. To solve this problem using technology, we worked together and used a 3d printer to create a wire holder. This was a great help for us since we could clearly see how to connect the light bulbs and wires so we were able to finish efficiently and use teamwork.

 

Dream 

Me and my group wanted to make something simplistic, easy to print, but also works great. We faced many problems with our light bulbs, wires and our circuits so we did some brainstorming to figure out what we should fix and how we should design it for the best outcome. I found that when we worked together and utilised each other’s opinions and ideas, it helped us to come up with a solution that would be great for our project so that is when we started to design it.

 

Deliver 

Once me and my group came to the decision that our wires were one of our main problems holding us back throughout this experience, we came up with a design of a long rectangle with two long holes that go all the way through to the top. The wires that are especially a problem will thread through the holes to create more space and help us to stay organised. Overall, I thought that our experience 3d printing our design was rather smooth apart from the fact that it was a bit hard to print at first and we faced some technical issues. Once we got that sorted, we were able to successfully 3d print it and pick it up later that day to connect it to our wires and add it to our project.

Debrief 

Overall, I believe that me and my group’s experience was great and fairly easy. We were successful in creating our tinkercad design and all of our circuits inside of our house. We all worked well as a group and we all were able to play a part in creating this project. I believe that we were very wise in our decisions especially our 3d printed wire holder because it helped us to stay organised and on top of our due date. However, there are some things that I would go back and change and one of them would be creating more of our wire holders and not only just one because there were more wires that had to be dealt with. Of course we faced many problems and obstacles but overall I had a great and educational experience.