My original concept for the final project was create an altar-like piece with objects that were moved on and off the surface to denote whether or not you completed a task. The data of those movements would be collected for period in time and then a book would be sent you, composed of your data. But what if you wanted your printed results faster and what is this object could also print the data?
That caused me to start thinking about if the unit could house a small printer. Shawn Wallace, my instructor at Fab Academy, recommended checking out the thermal printer at AdaFruit. Along with the assistance classmates Kenzo Abiko and Matt Underwood, I spent the rest of the day making new 3-dimensional sketches of my object that could accomidate the thermal printer. Eventually the idea started to morph and the objects went away, being replaced by buttons. I like the idea of the object printing out progress reports that you could then turn into books. Most of my time was spent experimenting with Sketchup. The tutorials were pretty easy to follow. I learned how to load the thermal printer part into Sketchup so that I could be sure that the box could accomidate it.
Realizing that the 30 days it took to change a habit was almost in sync with the cycle of the moon (30 days vs. 29 days) and I began to incorporate lunar imagery into the object and would like to have it be timed with the moon cycles.
