A) Project

This was the most difficult and big project i have ever had to do. When a project is this big it is always difficult to keep track on what has to be done and what is being done. It is also difficult to please everybody and to keep everybody satisfied. I did enjoy the project as a whole. I liked that we had to make something that other users could use and that will actually be played. It is always nice to see a lot of different disciplines coming together to create something awesome.

B) Team

Our overall workflow together was positive. We all did what we had to do and knew each other strengths and weaknesses. Because of the long time being together you might get some irritations because you are always with each other, but that is normal. I think we all did our part and made something nice. I am proud of my team and of myself

C) Yourself

I think i have learned a lot in this project. Giving guidance and giving feedback mostly. Also retaining one style and building some things are some of the things i’ve learned. I’ve also learned to deal with disappointment, because everytime we had a demo i thought we deserved more. It is difficult to keep calm in such a situation but in the end we managed to make it all good.

We had our last demo for Yvens and Margit. We showed our installation and our progress and got feedback. We were surprised about the feedback since we believed to have done more then we got graded for. We considered the feedback and did some extra’s to improve our overall grade

Marco and Ruben also held the Go/No-Go moment with Harry and Rene. They were pleasantly surprised and we got a GO. Monday we will finalize everything so that we can move on tuesday

Ruben changed the script with the new information we gathered via the city tour give by Frits. We all decided to remove the javascript game and replace it with a nice and unexpected question. This to get as much (what we thought) information about Enschede. We kind of changed the subject to be more of a guessing question so that the user is more or less surprised of the correct answer.

We finalized the script and we recorded Max Schippers’ voice and it fits our concept way better than the original voice of Ruben.

This is the finalized script + question (excluding the introduction video, that stayed the same):

Locatie 1 (Grote kerk)

Hi and welcome at our first location. I have a task for you, but before that, you have to have a bit more knowledge about this church. Let me tell you about it:

This church was built in 1200 for the first time. This church has a sundial at the right side of the building. Beneath the sundial there’s a stone with some old text, if you find every capital letter and place them after each other it reads: MCMXVIII, which stand for the year the sundial was made (1918). This place including this church was bombed 61 times during the second world war but how many times was this placed bombed by the Germans? Answer correctly and get the first dial to unlock the safe. 

Vraag : How many times, out of 61, was this place bombed by the Germans?

Answer 1: 32x , it was sometimes mistaken for a german city

Answer 2: 61x , it were alway the germans

Answer 3: 0x , it were always the allies

Locatie 2 (Brand Monument) 

Hello and welcome at our next stop: Het Brandmonument. This is a monument in the city center of Enschede. In 1862 a lot of the city was burned down. The roofs were decorated at the time with pine branches because of the visit of King Willem the third. The fire spread quickly because of the fact that 85% of the houses were made entirely out of wood. But how, according to the legend, did the fire start? If you can answer this question, you will get the next dial to unlock the safe!

Vraag: According to the legend, how did the fire start?

Answer 1: A woman was making pancakes
Answer 2: A man accidentally started fire by dropping a lit cigarette
Answer 3: It was because of an electrical malfunction in a large factory
Answer 4: A bonfire got out of control and set the entire city on fire

Location 3 (Bolwerk)

Welcome to my local pub! I  like to drink my beers with my friends here. I will tell you a little bit more about the oldest and coolest pub of enschede. After you get the answer right we will head to the next spot. The french word “boulevard” is a derivative of the dutch word bolwerk, a bolwerk is a word for a defense line. Enschede had 7 of those defense lines, Café Bolwerk being one of them. Willem Wilmink wanted to be buried below this café. Willem Wilmink was Enschede’s most famous poet. One of his poems was about his and also my favorite pub. If you complete this poem, you will get the next dial! 

(Hint: The poem is located inside the cafe somewhere)

’Begraaf mij onder ’t Bolwerk,
want al is crematie netter,
ik wil boven stappen horen
en het lied van ________’

Vraag: Complete the poem: Which word fills the blank and is a song title of Ethel Waters

Answer 1: Cheek to Cheek 

Answer 2: I got rhythm

Answer 3: Under the moon

Answer 4: Stormy Weather

Locatie 4 (3 Ganzen, Bombardement)

This was a heavily bombed place in the 2nd world war. It was totally destroyed back then. Here you can see how it could look if the bombs dropped right now. You have to look very carefully and find the letters to make a word! If you get this seven letter word correct , we can move on!

(360 Photo)

Location 5 (Van Heekplein)

Welcome at the last location! We only have one code to find, but hurry! This is where people shop now but you wouldn’t recognise it if you were here 70 years ago, it was totally bombed! I will tell you a bit more about the person this place is named after.

The square is named after Hendrik Jan van Heek, one of the founders of the Van Heek textile factory. Van heek lived in a villa just behind De grote kerk. He was an influential rich man. He was a big name in the textile scene, but besides making a lot of textile, he was also good at making a lot of other things, especially making children. If you guess how many children he had living with him at villa van heek, we can get the last dial and return to the safe!

Vraag: How many children did Van Heek have?

Answer 1: 13

Answer 2: 10

Answer 3: 4

Answer 4: 7

We had a walkthrough last Tuesday with Harry and Boris to test our installation which we had at that time. They saw how it triggered and how the user experience is.

Positive feedback were:

• It was looking good
• Experience was clear
• Interaction was clear
• Hardware was working
• To quote Harry and Boris: “The best experience walkthrough we have had up to this point”

Some improvement points were:

• How to secure the buttons
• The hole was not round so we had to cover it up nicely
• Cables could or should go behind the installation
• LED could have been in another place

Of course we are happy and making a lot of good progress. We will embrace the feedback and work on the improvement points

Last post (Getting in contact) Ruben and Dennis reached out to a couple of people that could help us in a very nice way.

Our results are that we have a reward! We have managed to get 4 free tickets that are both usable voor De Museumfabriek and Rijksmuseum Twenthe.

From the message Dennis sent to a group of city tour guides, we managed to get in touch with Frits Heijne, the oldest city guide of Enschede. Next Wednesday (26th) we will take a tour at 13:00 where he will show us pictures and get information that can’t be found on internet, which is a big plus for us

To better our entrepreneurial skills we contacted a few different people for a few different reasons.

Ruben contaced:

• Rijksmuseum Twenthe
• De Museumfabriek

Dennis is contacting:

• Diffrent citytour guides

Ruben is trying to arrange a sponsor for a reward. Because of our installation focussing about having an experience in the history of Enschede some good partners for us, we figured, are musea. Ruben sent them an e-mail and is waiting for response.

Dennis is trying to get to know some cool facts about Enschede only certain people know, so that we have special information, not from the internet.

Dennis also asked Enschede Promotion (our client) if they could offer our experience to visitors, unfortunately we were denied. They said: “We can’t do it right now, but if it is a succes, we could implement it on our website”

We have some clear roles every teammember has to do for the building:

Rene was mostly busy with testing and lasercutting.
Femke was busy with getting us the supllies
Marco’s focus point was getting the door mechanism to work
Rubens main focus was to make sure every chord was long enough en was working together with Dennis
Dennis main goal was making the newspaper next to our safe
Sinans job was to still work on the website, it has proven to be such a time investment that he can’t really help with building.

Our installation exists of 3 parts, the safe, the pedestal and the stand. With the stand and Safe being (apart from decoration) nearly done. We only have the pedestal to wory about for this week. School provided us with the wood and an installation guide. Dennis and Ruben built the pedestal and both painted it with brown acryl paint. With two layers of paint we got a realy nice texture and color

This is the end result:

Our building is ahead of most groups and we are happy that is coming along quite nicely. Next week we want to have it completely working with functionality and looks, which we think is feasible

We have some clear roles every teammember has to do for the building:

Rene was mostly busy with testing and lasercutting.
Femke was busy with getting us the supllies
Marco’s focus point was getting the door mechanism to work
Rubens main focus was to make sure every chord was long enough en was working together with Dennis
Dennis main goal was making the newspaper next to our safe
Sinans job was to still work on the website, it has proven to be such a time investment that he can’t really help with building.

The newspaper stand went from being 2 wooden logs with one nail to a stable installation where our introduction video will be placed.

The people who worked most on the newspaper stand were Dennis and Ruben. Dennis was the handy man in sawing the wood en screwing is together. Ruben helped and assisted him with holding and painting the stand. Ruben and Dennis also went to Rubens house to spraypaint different decorations for the safe and the installation in general.

Dennis brought a pole to school and he cut an angle out of it so that it’s tilted forwards. the next thing we had to do was make a case for our monitor.

We placed the monitor on one of the provide wood pieces that school gave us and we started making measurements about what size the encasing should be. We found that the case should be 56cm in width and 43 cm high. inside that (in the middle) the display would take up 34cm of width and 18 cm of height.

Ruben measured it out and drew it on the MDF wood. Dennis proceeded to saw it to those measurements. When we finished we had the top of our stand done. We made the bottom a little smaller (because we ran out of wood) but it wasn’t noticable. We proceeded to make 4 side pieces with one side piece having room for:

• Ventilation
• Cables
• Our sensors

Now we had the rough idea of the stand itself. We proceeded to paint the stand the same color as the safe (Rock grey) and we decorated the top part with a lasercut piece of wood. It is in the shape of a newspaper and conveys that feeling. Lastly we added support beam for extra stability and we added velcro fastener to the top so that we could, at any moment, open the newspaper and get to our monitor

After 2 days of continuously working on the stand. Ruben and Dennis nearly finisched it apart from decoration. This is the end result

We are very happy with our finished product. It looks clean and doesn’t need a lot of work anymore

This will be a post which contains the work of Week 6 and 7, We have made a lot op progress. From having only a large box to have a nearly functional safe which has the look, but not quite the feel we want it to have.

We have some clear roles every teammember has to do for the building:

Rene was mostly busy with testing and lasercutting.
Femke was busy with getting us the supllies
Marco’s focus point was getting the door mechanism to work
Rubens main focus was to make sure every chord was long enough en was working together with Dennis
Dennis main goal was making the newspaper next to our safe
Sinans job was to still work on the website, it has proven to be such a time investment that he can’t really help with building.

Everybody did their takst and i’m now taking you through our process.

We started with the box that Marco got from home. We first wanted a mechanism that could turn the doorn by itself and the open. After being on it for a few days, we and Marco realized it wasn’t feasible. It worked but the closing of the doorn was a pain in the butt. We skipped the entire idea of making it turn. Marco’s next thing was making sure the door could open and close with a mechanism. He cut out the cirkel for the door, got the hinges and secured the door. He had some minor setbacks with the wood being to soft and breaking or not being able to hold the door. After a few days and multiple attempts the door was functional and the safe was painted “Rock grey”. The finished result is shown below

What is show here is also the work of Rene. Rene designed the buttons and the dials so that you could enter a combination. Ruben painted those buttons with ‘beits’ to give it a bronze wooden look. We will probably repaint our installation and make it more clean. But the door is finished.

We will later add the functionality before meeting with Harry and Boris so that they get the idea of how it works

We also added the Potmeters which Ruben made longer to about 2 meters, so that they could reach our laptop in the stand

Here are shown: the wires of the potmeters and de lock mechanism. The lock is a servo that will open on the right combination and close on the wrong. It is a easy and nifty little solution for our lock. We chose to make it ourselfs instead of buying a pre made one because we could customize it better this way

We decided to change the appearance of our character design again. We want convey a more ‘sneaky’ look with our character. We will choose the color scheme based on our stylesheet as so for the typography . We will create a side and a front view of the same character.

The end-result is shown below

We removed most of the details of the person on the left. Giving them more the same appearance, also trying to blend the 2 styles more together