User:Ehaynes7928/ENES-100/Project 1: Access Project

Week 1 Narrative
Beginning the access project, I took the responsibility of measuring up the the specifications of the door and other parts of the room relevant to the project.

After drawing up a diagram of the room from memory, I tried to anticipate what I would be measuring. This diagram included doors, the teacher's station, and raspberry pies as well as less important geography such as the desks, islands and chalkboard.

The second stage included the actual measurements. I measured dimensions of the door, as well as distances to and dimensions of nearby mounting points. I have all the information needed on length to raspberry pi and power supply.

Last in the week I drew up a tentative sketch on Ben's computer of where all the components would be placed. Blue represents the different components, dark green represents control lines, light green is the power line, brown is the tether used by the gatekeeper to open the door.

Week 2 Narrative
This week began with turning last weeks sketch into a scale drawing. Both designs I created for the keymaster and sensor mount have been scrapped for more logical versions. In the new design for the keymaster, a band is used to attach the drawstring to the door handle. This band was laminated using the door handle as a form. I hope to create a tutorial for the methods I used.

Week 3 Narrative
I created a design for a spindle to be printed that would fit the keymaster and wind the tether attached to the handle. However the file would not print properly despite how it looks in maker ware. I also designed a shield for the keymaster although, I was unable to build it before falling ill.