Repacking Friday

This Friday we spent most of the time trying to get the pieces together. The buttons were reacting way to slow (and triggers multiple times to often). As we thought this was an issue with the actual buttons we packed and repacked the bag several times, each time with a little bit less foam in between the foil connectors in the buttons (se earlier post for button description). We also thought that it could be a problem with the buttons beeing to flexible, so that they actually bend instead of compress. 

This lead us to also try putting stiff cardboard backgrounds for the buttons but to no success. The whole project day was miserable. We started to discuss alternative game models if we could not get the buttons to function as we wanted. The main alternative idea was to have the user hit a certain color until it registred. I fell that that solution would be a big let down for the group.