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By: Jonathan Lindstrom<\/p>\n

What is it?<\/h2>\n

The Study Buddy helps keeps you focused while studying and gives you a sweet reward after intense study sessions.<\/p>\n

Discussion<\/h2>\n

For my project, I feel many things went well but there was also a lot that could be improved upon. Starting with the positive critiques I was happy to hear that \u201cThe interface was excellent. Super intuitive to use. And so well contained in the box!\u201d That was one of my primary focuses in my project. I wanted to create an interface that anybody could pick up and be able to navigate. Creating the UI was my favorite part of the project. Working with it I learned a lot about what makes an effective UI. In the future, I think I would code it a little differently to save some memory on the Arduino but overall I was very proud of it.<\/p>\n

For negative critiques many of the comments regarded the LED indicator, my classmates mentioned \u201cI should possibly add more LEDs to signify if the user was in work time or break time, or having multiple colors of LEDs to make the design a bit more intuitive. \u201c I agree and it is something that I wish I had properly implemented. I was planning to have different colors for work and break but I simply ran out of time and it wasn\u2019t a priority for me.<\/p>\n

There were a couple of things I wish I had done differently or better. I wish I had implemented the different colored LEDs as I feel it would have made the light indicator more effective. I also would have liked to integrate the candy dispensing mechanism into the main body of the project as opposed to building it on the side.<\/p>\n

I do not think I will build a second iteration but these would be the next steps if I were to build a second interaction of this project. Furthermore, when I performed some user tests I realized that the fact that a joystick is a button isn\u2019t necessarily intuitive. I had users attempting to press the home button to select options in my menu. This led me to glue on little signs near my buttons to make it more intuitive but if there were a second iteration I would laser cut these messages.<\/p>\n

Overall I was pleased with how my project turned out. It functions largely how I intended it to and I had a lot of fun designing the UI and laser cutting the housing for the electronics.<\/p>\n

Images & Videos<\/h2>\n

-Final Image<\/h4>\n
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The final images of my Study Buddy.<\/p><\/div>\n

-Working Video<\/h4>\n
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