Reflection

Looking back, this project has taught me that implementing an idea from it's conception to the first prototype is a struggle that is worth undergoing. As a beginner to coding, I took a lot of time to understand how I could code and what activities, outputs and responses I could get to manifest my thinking. I also realise that throughout the process, my focus was more on simulating the experience and feel of the intended idea than including more complex methods of interactions with the plant. Demonstrating the purpose of the research and making the idea happen as the first experiential prototype was important to me.

While application of my learnings from class was an important hands-on step to improve what I had absorbed during skills development classes, taking the liberty to experiment, try different methods to communicate the idea, fail, re-try and fail again was excruciating. However, the final manifestation the circuit and code to documenting the process was great experience to finally make my imagination come to life. I believe there's a lot more to do from this point on and I'm excited to work on this idea further to explore more possibilities!