Video

It did not take me long to decide on a sort of theme for my video. I thought that it would have been much more beneficial to the viewer to watch it in a point of view style where the camera is what the user sees. I had great trouble trying to get it filmed well enough. I tried to attach the camera to a hat to create hat-cam, but that didn’t work.

I ended up resorting to just holding the camera with one hand which is why there is only one hand in the video. In short I think it turned out quite successfully. It shows the function of the product and that is really what I wanted to get across. The design should essentially be superfluous if the function is just right. Think of your computer. You don’t really consider the design of it when using it because you are engrossed with what is on the screen.

Fourth Year: Video Tests

Summer in 90 Seconds

Here is the video I mentioned a few posts back. It was the video we were meant to have made before the course had a shake up and the people who set us the task of making the video of our summer had left.

Enjoy!

It is also available on YouTube here.

#169 I still need some baffles…

The impending electronics drive is soon to start as soon as a soldering iron with a fine tip makes its way to me. Practicing PicAXE programming is the order of the day when it gets underway. One thing I would need for all this prototyping is wire, and to save it from getting tangled up in a big mess I made this… and I say made, all I did was make some holes in the plastic bit of this coffee jar and there you go, a wire dispenser.

The only thing I might end up doing is to make some baffles or rearrange the way in which the wire is wound just to keep them separate and not get tangled up, but for the time being it is very simple and works. What more do I need.

#142 iPad to PS3

The other day I was thinking, as you do, and it came across me, why can’t you use an idevice such as an iPhone or iPad to control basic functions of a PS3? A bit of a random thought I know, but using one as a remote would give more functionality than a standard controller.

The way I see it would work (and I have googled to see if it has already been done and as far as I’m aware, it hasn’t), is that it would be in app form. It would be loaded up and connect via either bluetooth or wifi to the PlayStation. Almost acting as a secondary display, an XMB (cross media bar) would be displayed on the iPad screen, all the usual gestures would be usable and the functions could be used. It wouldn’t be able to be used to play games with, but it would make sense if it could be used to view images, play music or play video with good playback functionality.

Using the standard PS3 controller for media functions on a PS3 can get a bit confusing, and not many users would be willing to fork out for a specific media remote for it. The number of users who have iDevices is pretty much at 100 million at the moment, and the app would be available to all, and in my opinion, something which could be quite popular.

Here is something I quickly knocked up to show what I mean, even if it just looks as though it is a secondary screen…

#133 A Video of a Polo

Here is a video of the Polo being created. In YouTube or Vimeo form.

#113 Backwards Cars: Part III

Another installment of Backwards Cars. This time a Ford Focus RS500, with a video I quickly put together.

#102 An Idea

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#100 2010: A year in Pictures

In the same what In which I did this for 2009, I have gone ahead and compiled a short video of the photo’s which I liked the most from 2010.

#95 NCR Boards

Part of the main product design module this semester was for the NCR Student Competition, held with a number of Product Design Courses at Universities in Scotland. Having been one of the ones chosen to go through and present at the final event, I pulled out due to the amount of other work that was needing to have been done for the course at that particular time (amongst other reasons).

The following boards show what my final idea was. The basic concept was for those living in rural india to be able to record, share and view other videos on a device aimed at helping those with their own small business advertise themselves to try and increase their income. It was called RECORD.