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Week 5

Last week, aside from our playtesting sessions, we had a meeting with Lou that was integral to the evolution of our project’s design. Firstly, we talked about the platform for the project. Lou confirmed that creating an application to install on Chromebooks at schools would not be possible, given that we would likely need permission […]

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Week 4

Our main focus this week were two playtesting sessions that we were able to schedule with sixth grade classes in schools near Pittsburgh. Our main goal was to allow students to interact with different input and output controlled by micro:bits and see how they interpreted the relationship between them. We also wanted to learn which […]

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Week 3

Our third week took off with our quarter presentation, in which we updated faculty on the progress of our project so far and got their feedback. Their advice was crucial in helping us move forward with our design and plan for our first playtesting sessions, happening next week. 1/4 Presentation The following is the slideshow […]

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Week 2

We started off our second week with Mike Christel and John Dessler’s Playtest to Explore Workshop on Wednesday, for which we designed a composition box of our ideas so far. We had our second client meeting with Lou on Friday, after which we worked on our presentation for quarter presentations (happening next week on Monday). […]

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Week 1

Hello! And welcome to Micro Bittle’s blog! We’ll publish weekly updates about our work here, which makes this blog the archive of our semester-long project. What’s This Project About? Micro Bittle is integrated by five second-year students at the ETC. When we applied for this project, its description stated the following: This project will focus […]