Timeline
Procedure
We plan on creating a physical interface which assists a user in identifying and sorting the type of trash they have and the amount of contamination it contains. The system will be composed of a Raspberry-Pi which will control the questionnaire touch screen, the underlying sounds and attention-grabbers, and the servos to activate the lids for the trash and recycling cans.
Baseline data has already been captured for the recycling quality without our product through a previous waste audit. Another waste audit will be conducted with the presence of our product in Rockwell Integrated Science Center to evaluate the effectiveness of our solution.
Delegation
We decided to add new team roles specifically to address the work we will be doing in creating and testing our prototypes this semester. All of the other roles we planned to keep the same as they were in the fall. These team roles are set up as teams rather than individual roles. The people in one group can work to help another group, but for example the people in the CAD group are organizers of that information. The teams are as follows:
Stage One Teams:
Incentive (Sound) – Rebekah*, Erica, Zach
CAD (Hinges/Chassis) – Juliette*, Zach, Rebekah, Mark, Yardley
UI Interface/ Panel- John*, Alex, Juliette, Mark
Stage Two Teams:
Force sensor- Erica*, Alex, John, Yardley
Psychology – Rebekah, Erica
* denotes a team leader
Team leader description: plans additional meetings, communicates with other teams, updates the entire team on progress and deliverables, in charge of maintaining the schedule
The group will more or less all work together for each phase of the project, but the people listed above will be leading the team through each of the phases. These teams will use the roles listed below to delegate tasks.
- Designers: They will work together to form an initial version of the prototype, perhaps through leading the rest of the team in brainstorming on the whiteboard. Then they will be in charge of coalescing all of the ideas that we generated and making sure everyone’s voice was equally heard and communicating the final plan to the rest of the team.
- Purchasers: They take point on figuring out which items will be best for the team to purchase for the project. This could be done through research, talking to professors, etc. Then they will communicate the purchasing order to the engineering department.
- CAD Creators: They will work together to use AutoCAD and implement the designers’ ideas to create a functioning prototype to test.
- Code Creators: They will work together to use Arduino and implement the designers’ ideas to create a functioning prototype to test.
- Testers: They will create a test plan and test the prototype with other students.
- Analyzers: They will get the results of the experiment and then analyze the results. They will then lead the discussion with the designers to create more prototypes as needed and advise them to make necessary changes.