Saturday, October 31, 2009

Reverse Brainstorming

During Eugene Shteyn's visit we participated in what he calls reverse brainstorming.

These images show the 70 problems we came up with somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes.



My Short Term List: 15, 17, 62, 70, 13, 35, 44, 3, 68, 24

My Long Term List: 65, 59, 58, 1, 18, 42, 45, 46, 20, 28

The teams Top Three:

Short Term: 70, 10/13, 9

Long Term: 20, 28, 59

Then we talked about three important factors of our project, size, time and cost.

Humans have the tendency to make things that are big enough for them to hold, or carry, and often at the size that would be considered "humanscale". This is close to the size I was planning for our robot.

We discussed the possibility of scaling the object down. If there were several very small bots, what would the project be? What if the bot was larger, the size of the city? It could become a bioreactor power plant. A living, breathing, green mass... constantly reproducing and expanding.

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