Teams were formed this week (2) and I have been put in a group of three with Dean and Ben. The similar project idea we all shared was of an environmental theme; Dean’s was about a temperature indicator and Ben’s was a virtual environment screen. However in the tragic case we might be seen as hippies from having ‘The Environment Team’ as our group name I was able to push ‘Team RamRod’ to the guys for our new, super-awesome name.
So far we have agreed to go with the concept of my proposed environmental idea; which was the drought-awareness fountain:
Drought Awareness (David Whipps) Glass Contained Water Fountains each representing one of the dams’ levels supplying South-East Queensland through the intensity of their height. Each linked through the internet to a source that supplies the percentage-full that each of the particular dams are at the time. Whilst a sensor takes in how many is in the room and uses that in a calculation that produces a theoretical fact of some sort in regards to water-wastage. Obviously targeted to all locals of S.E. Queensland who are all responsible for how we get through this drought.
However we are really keen to implament all three of our ideas into something that will help the public be aware of the drought we currently all are apart of.
What Next? Though we have a concept going we are still in the process of thinking of how to make it interactive for the public. We are so far, thinking of using a screen interface for people to be able to play-around with certain water scenarios to see the future/current effects on our South-East water supply – with possibly a link to the fountains that could also be used to represent data from the use of the interface.
Alocation of jobs/specialties etc. are yet to be finalised as we all agreed it is too early to finalise on this. Thus, everyone is really just looking into anything they can so far until our goals for this project are finalised.
I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine.Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music that he's created over the years - I don't really listen to it. But the fact that he's making it, I respect that.
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