Our interim report for the solar tracking device proved unsuccessful. After showing a computer code that can triangulate to find the location of a light source and a set of renderings of spine-like devices that could theoretically bend to follow sunlight, the professors and audience seemed oddly unimpressed.
Back to the drawing boards. I feel that our group was on to something with all of this, but we didn't execute it in a way that communicated solar-tracking, biomimetic, 2-axis motion, smart surface. This week, I think our group will focus solely on this spinal column, that will grow and bend toward the light.
Here are some sources of inspiration:
Snow Buttercup
Heliotropic Sun-tracking System
Added constraints that our group would like to address:
Compactness - can we make this device flatten down and contain itself for transport?
Deployability - can we make this device deploy easily? Will the user need to orient it in any particular way?
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