Tuesday day marked an important milestone, since it was time for design review 2. We were teamed up with Group 1, who are designing an arcade like basketball game. Each group started with a small presentation of their process so far, and afterwards the other group joined in and discussed the project. It turned out that some parts of our projects were somewhat similar, in terms of making stepper motors work when weight is applied, and creating multiple users via Node-RED. This opens an opportunity for knowledge sharing later on in the project, if one of our groups happen to get stuck. At this point in the process both of our groups are in a good work flow, so the meeting was mostly a sharing of experiences, and not so much answering questions.
The design review afterwards led to a discussion in our group about our visions for our project. Group 1 has developed a very complex product, which is suitable for their concept. We discussed the preferred level of complexity for our project, and agreed that we want to develop a more simplistic product, as we see this as suitable for the kind of concept that we are working on.
All in all it was useful to see how one of the other groups are doing, and it left us with some useful insights about our own project.