So this whole week the narrative team had to start grinding on the story. We had already busted out a rough draft, but we needed to get comments and suggestions from as many people as we could before we could move on. Thankfully enough we had gotten a good amount of feedback and it truly helped with the team's effectiveness. Other than that, the team had to make sure tat everyone on the engineering side knew what the story was and it seems as if they have a good understanding. Now I am mostly on standby and ready to help contribute to anyone's work if I could help along with the narrative team.

Maker-Fair job

For Maker Fair I would like to be a part of the team for narrative. I feel that I am best suited for this job because I know what it takes to think out of the box. You have to make sure that whatever story you create, the audience loves it, and that is only possible by understanding your audience. I do that on a daily basis due to being the CMO for my company Taux.

Maker Faire Gmae research

A game that I truly liked and stands as a common favorite, is the Assassin's Creed Series. The story revolves around an organization of assassin's that fight against another called the Templars for spreading their beliefs. The thing is that each game takes place in a different period of time so its like you are transported to a different time in history. Ubisoft does an excellent job of making the surroundings much like the chosen era. The games seems to be developed to create a game with great maneuverability of the player and do it at a time that seems almost impossible to recreate. The game was developed with Google sketch up and used by the company Ubisoft. 
A couple of these time periods include the American Revolution, the Renaissance, The Seven Years war, Rome, and Israel and the Crusades.

This was as far as I had gotten into this particular project. I managed to finish off the circle, the rectangle, and triangle, but couldn't finish the star. I think the most challenging thing that I had accomplished was finshing the center point for the circle. I ended up finding it by dividing the height by two and then subtracting by the diameter and dividing that value by two. That gave me the point at which the circle ends. So from there I drew a line the length of the diameter and drew a circle from it. The rectangle was pretty easy because you didn't really have to calculate much of the distances. I still have the question as per how to finish the star. I was unable to complete it and I might have found out if I had more time. However, as a total, I was unable to finish it and do consider this my next challenge. I hope that by the end of the year, at the least, I can learn how to complete this, and the entire project with much more fluidity.

This was the "shelter" my partner Vijay and I built. We built with 30 toothpicks and gum drops. The main inspiration we had in this was the x-bracing that is used in buildings to protect from earthquakes. Above that we realized that the largest potential problem would be a loss of balance so we created side supports that can catch the shelter from falling completely if it were to fall.

1. Our primary shapes were triangles and squares.

2. 60.95 and 45 degrees were the angles of that were used in this project

3. 60.5 in^2 was the surface area and we would need around 60.5 in^2 of a material like cement or brick to cover the shelter

4. 15.625 in^2 insides was the interior surface area. it could potentially fit 30 people,

5. We took factors like the weather and environment into consideration as we tried to create a roof and x-braced the shelter to be less prone to destruction in the event of a natural disaster.

6. We could clearly see the form of the object being established through solving the issue with functionality. An example would be the x bracing and how we worked with triangles to have more stability in the actual structure.

How to make a sphere

My question was how to make a sphere? Some things seemed easy enough, but a sphere almost seemed impossible. You can't extrude a circle because that creates a cylinder and nothing else came to mind. After this video i learned about how you can use a circle tool and revolve it. By doing so, you allow the circle to create a sphere.

This is the video I used.f
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv0HAUC8p6c

Also to lweanr from another friend, I used the help of my friend ashab. Ashab had managed to create a cylinder so I asked him how to make one. He lead me through the steps pf creating a triangle, and then revolving it. At the end of this project, I managed to lean how to make a sphere and a cylinder.0

Form follows function

At first when I was thinking about what could be improved on in the world, I had a little bit of trouble. I couldn't think immediately of something that needed improving that wasn't already created. Then I realized that the place where I was sitting at could easily be upgraded. I realized that desks, the staple in every classroom, where not made for the student. These were drab things that we used on a daily basis, but it was not geared towards helping students. So my plan was to create a desk where students can have something to look forward to their studies. I was thinking of a white board desk that students can use to take notes and let their creativity flow. We have seen this technology in a white board notebook called letterforms. It would be an easier way for people to be enthusiastic about studies. I felt that the way to construct it would to have the whiteboard be at the top of the desk and then we could also have a scanning technology built into the desk to be able to copy down any notes taken into a digital format. This reminds me a lot of this dry erase notebook called letterforms that was created to serve this exact purpose.It is very similar to this product, but it is also very different in the sense that we can scan the surface, so it is no longer just a note taking device, but can also take it from being physical to digital. Now this is just in the preliminary stages. I do feel like there is a lot that can be improved on. Like It could be a much larger desk which would help with group projects, and so on.