Before I started studying Industrial Design I had some experience using HTML and CSS, but I never worked with electronic circuits and programming microcontrollers. I developed this competency in the project and by following the workshop ‘Getting started with Arduino.’

The result was a final prototype which makes people experience ‘battling’ with the ekk-devices. The main hardware I used to create this were an Innovations ID-12 RFID reader, an Arduino Uno and a rgb-LED (figure 1)

“For a first project, you advanced quite far in terms of realizing a working prototype…” “…the electronics/programming required to demonstrate the interaction were functional (and were also well researched, using NFC for communication between your ekks and Wi-Fi for communication with a central system).” a

J.B.O.S. Martens, coach

Figure 1: The circuit used for the prototype on the final Demoday.

Figure 1: The circuit used for the prototype on the final Demoday.

By building the prototype I gained knowledge about the technical specifications of an Arduino, its maximum current for example, and how to interpret specsheets of components that I used for the prototype for the project.b

I also developed a basic skillset to think about how a program should be structured and to apply this in my programming. This showed me the important connection of this competence with DMM.

In my attitude I was open for experiment, but I also learnt to document my work better. I noticed that the lack of documentation for the midterm prototype, made it more difficult to develop a better version. I paid extra attention to documentation on my further work, for example by creating a circuit diagram. The result was that I worked more efficiently and it made it easier to explain things to other group member that were not directly involved in this aspect of the project.

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