2nd
Over the last 20 weeks I’ve been working in a team on designing and building a hand-held game for a 9 year old with vision impairment. This pic is the guts of the device. I didn’t learn anything “theoretical” when working on this project. But I feel I pulled a lot more out of this than from any other class I have taken. Additionally, it was the first time I really worked in a group on an engineering project. Which overall was a positive experience. I learned a lot about myself, good and bad over the run of the project. Before this project I was too idealistic about what can be accomplished given a fixed interval of time. Also, I had a very strong tendency to over-engineer, and just in general disgustingly overthink things. Which I always thought was a good thing, but I realize now isn’t. Additionally, I learned a lot about other people, which was enlightening. My thought there is that if someone is not contributing they are probably in a position that does not favor his/her skillset and talents.
Overall I am having difficulty wrapping my head around how this relates to its end user. All of our labor results in the introduction of something completely new to someone who normally would not have this opputunity due to a physical impairment outside his own control. Thinking about that definitiely makes any frustration from the project seem rather miniscule.
