THE+MUSTANGS+(CJ,Maria,Sydni,Erin)

Today we put together our wires for music. First, we cut the wires from the speakers and then we took off some of the fibers. We were trying to decide whether or not to remove the fibers by scraping it off or burn it off, so we were trying to figure out which is better for our group's project. We worked well together and accomplished a lot today. We managed to get about halfway done with our speakers, but we need to remove the fibers so that we can get clean sound from the speakers.
 * __Tuesday - 5/5/09 - C.J.'s post #1__**

__**Thursday - 5/7/09 - C.J.'s Post #2**__ Today we found a flaw in our designs. In order to make the speaker louder we have to use a mini tin amp. To increase the sound, we need to have a larger outboard that can only be done by changing the speaker idea into an amp that we found on Make Magazine. So now, we have to change the idea, but the materials are not really the same, except all those boxes we have to take home. Now we can only make one or two speakers due to the time they take. Citations: []

__**Thursday 5/14/09 -Sydni's post 1**__ Today we are looking at a new proposal. We learned that the mini tin amp was too complicated, and the materials would take to long to gather. Our goal this week was to gather the materials. That definetlly wouldn't happen. That would have taken too long. We are moving forward today. We need to make a new proposal and today we are deciding on something. We hope that it will involve not a lot of complicated wiring, easy, yet will take enough time. We plan to make a mobile out of glass, and it would create a ton of rainbows. We would start by attaching glass on to twine. Then we would create a bunch of mirrors everywhere, and cast them at an angle, so that the sun would reflect the mirrors and the glass would create a ton of rainbows!

Today, we discussed starting a new project. We decided to just start a Scratch project instead of making something to make in 3 weeks. We started making a game, and we are making Dance Dance Revolution (a.k.a. DDR). We made the background today and the arrow sprites. We also started working on programming the sprites and looking at other peoples' DDR Scratch games to see how they did it. We got a lot done today, considering we are restarting from square 1, but we are still __a lot__ behind. We are planning to catch up by having all group members, which has been a minor problem since CJ and Maria sometimes get off task. But we think that our group is getting better.
 * __Friday 5/15/09-Sydni's Post 2__**

Today we are working on our Scratch project. We are a bit behind of where we want to be since we have only a few weeks left to work on our project. We plan to catch up by problem solving. Right now, Erin is the main one doing Scratch. Sydni is getting better, and we plan to include Mia more, starting today. Today our goal is to finish programming at least one of our sprites, like an arrow, to go upwards towards the others, and then to return down. We are struggling with making it go upward, yet getting it to stop at a certain point, and also to be ableto return back to starting position. What we want to know is how to repeat only certain items, while still applying perviouse settings to the repeat. We also want to find out how to keep a score on the screen. to do this we have been reviewing similar projefcts on scratch and comparing the different techniques. We are working a bit better as a group, only CJ keeps getting off task. We are working to keep him better involved. Our weekly goals would be to post what we have learned so far.This is a screen print of our progress.
 * __Monday 5/18/09- Maria's Post 1__**
 * __Tuesday 5.19.09- Maria's Post 2__**

Today, our goal was to make the arrows fall and stop when we wanted them to. We completed that and more, because we also made the background change colors. Now, we are on the right schedule because we did what we wanted to do and more, so we are caught up. Our goals for the end of this week is to have music playing in the background. We worked well today, except Maria got off task during a 10 minute period of our class time, but she calmed down and got back to work. This picture is about what we were working on today in class.
 * __Thursday 5.21.09- Maria's Post 3__**

Today, we got sound in our Scratch game and we fixed when the game says "Awesome" and "Boo". We were all focused and on task. We are almost done with our project and we just have to finish touch-ups on it and we're done! Our goals for next week are to finish our project and to be totally focused and on task the whole time. Have a Good Memorial Day!!!
 * __Friday 5/22/09-(Maria's Post 4) Maria's 12 and 3/4 b-day!!!__**

HOLA!!! Today, we had a group meeting. We found out that CJ had created a prodject much like ours, only it was guitar hero, not ddr. It had a lot of media that we liked, like a song choice page, a score bar, etc, so now we are working to use some of those kinds of things to improve our game. Part of our group was being difficult; we argued a lot. But we started working on adding buttons for songs and choosing songs. Maybe afterwards, if we have time, we'll make a menu page, but for now, we are working on buttons.
 * __5.26.09 Erin's documentation 1__**

__**5.28.09 Erin's Documentation 2**__ Today we finished programing our music, and now we are pretty much done. Our next step is to get our classmates to play the game and comment us on what they think we could improve. Today we also had a group meeting. We discussed some of the team problems we've been having with eachother. Our goals for this week are to improve on our communication skills.


 * __5.29.09 Erin's doc. 3__**

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Here is a pic of our program...


 * __C.J.'s POST 6.1.09__**

Today we found our that our song "Viva la Vida" button wasn't working. So Mia and I had to go redownload it on beemp3.com. It's really easy. We recomend it. Erin made a space mode, and all our arrows change into rocket ships. We're also planning on making afew more extra modes, if we have time. It was really tough without Sydni here, because she's usually the one downloading music, but we figured it out soon enough.

__**C.J.'s POST 6/2/09**__ Today we argued a lot. Part of our group tried to fix the issue, but only ended up seperating. We also are fixong errors in our program. Once we finish all of the documentation we need, we are going to start on the way we plan to present. We plan to make a Power Point. We also are getting opinions from other people. This will help us to see how other peope view our game.

How did you like the game?

Lorenzo response: The game was goood, but you could push the buttons as early as you needed to and the same notes came every time. The song choice was good.

Jack's response - I liked it, but the glitch-how you could just push the buttons as early as you wanted to- really takes away from the realisticness.

Susie's response- It was fun, but you could press the keys really early. It would be funner if you couldn't press the keys until it was by the arrow. And also, having different levels would be cooler.

So, due to our responses, we will consider adding some things, if we are given time.

Today, we finished up the project and fixed all the glitches.
 * __C__.**__**J's POST 6/4/09**__