WEEK 2
Shtilyan, the lifesaver
In the beginning, the fact that Shtilyan was in Bulgaria was a bit frustrating. In the end, it turned out to be our solution to our problems. He, with a fresh mind, came up with an amazing concept inspired by Chaldni's technique. We then talked about it, and tried to implement this idea into our concept. We then decided to create an interactive installation with a hologram as well as sounds, that people can control with their hand movements.
Getting our concept clear was not an easy thing. We had to talk to a lot of professors, as well as Jacob - a super cool artist - and the owner of the skate shop in the city. We god a lot of inspiration, and we finally got our concept straight.
WEEK 5
CORRECTING THE EMAIL FOR OUR SPONSORS
Marieke is gone on a trip this weekend, so we agreed that I would take over some things that needed to be done, concerning the sponsors. On Friday, I want to send out our email to our possible sponsors/partners. Before I do so, I want to take a look at the letter - it is always good to take a second look.
I made some changes, corrected some grammar mistakes and adjusted a few sentences.
Sending emails/getting in contact with them
When I tried to contact the companies, I realised that they didn't have an email/contact form for such purpose. They only provided emails for costumer service and support. I still emailed some of them but got no response. Then, I told Marieke that she should probably call them instead of sending them an email - I would do that myself, but since I don't speak Dutch, I thought that it would be better if a Dutch person would call them, and so she did, and we got our sponsors :).
research on php
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a general-purpose programming language originally designed for web development. I have only worked once with it before, during Project Creative Technologies, where I created a social media platform. I used it in a different way - I just wanted to save the data of people who register in my social network.
I am not very confident with PHP, because as I said, I haven't worked a lot with it. However, since I want to gain more knowledge on programming and 'get over my fear', I decided to try it out. We don't have any other team member who is willing to work on the back end development of our project, and Max is really busy with the hardware.
web scraping
Unfortunately, through my research, I found out that instead of PHP, the best language for web scraping is Python. I have never worked with Python before, so here comes a new challenge.
Fortunately, there is a lot of information on the web for Python, so I hope that it will be doable to find out how it works and implement it in our website.
DIAGRAMS FOR DESIGN DOCUMENT
I still haven't completely understood what these diagrams should look like and how to actually make them. I got a bit confused, because the information I found online was different from what Harry gave us. I tried to make some improvements, and now I want to ask Harry for more feedback and further explanation, so that I can make them in the correct way.
Web Scraping is a term that I listen for the first time. We decided that we want to collect data from our website - e.g. Who is going to attend an event, who is interested in an event etc.
By doing some research on the internet, I came across "Web Scraping". Web scraping is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may access the World Wide Web directly using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or through a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying, in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis.
