Introduction Moonlanders was a team of six ETC students collaborating with the Moonshot Museum to create three design prototypes for new interactive exhibits. The Moonshot Museum is a new Pittsburgh space museum dedicated to career and community readiness for the space industry of today and tomorrow. In partnership with Astrobotic, the Moonshot Museum offers visitors…

Week 14 is the official last week of the semester, marking the end of this project. For this week, we focused heavily on preparing for our final presentation (happening next week) and writing our documentation. Once we finish our final presentation and documentation, then our project will be complete. Documentation Documentation comprises an important part…

Week 13 marks the second to last week of this semester-long project (not counting finals week). Consequently, we are not planning on making any large changes to our digital prototypes, focusing on documentation instead. We also have soft openings with both the faculty and the alumni this week.  Soft Opening On Monday, April 17th, we…

Week 12 was a shorter week due to Carnegie Mellon’s Spring Carnival happening on Thursday and Friday of the week. Thus, we spent most of our time focused on making relatively small changes to our prototypes in anticipation for soft opening next week. We also went to the Moonshot Museum again to demo our prototypes…

During Week 11, we focused on making changes to two of our three prototypes, AR Moon Colony and Mission Control, based on the feedback we received from Playtesting Day. Once changes were made, we held a playtesting event in our project room with ETC students to test our changes.  AR Moon Colony For the AR…

As our team returned from GDC and other conferences for Week 10, we focused on preparing for the ETC’s Playtesting Day on April 1, 2023. Playtesting Day presented a great opportunity for us to test our prototypes with a wide variety of people, including families with young children.  Preparations for Playtesting Starting from the Monday…

Welcome to Week 9! Due to GDC (Game Developers Conference) and other conferences, several of our team members were not here at the ETC during this week. Thus, we had to adjust our tasks this week accordingly and we chose to focus on playtesting, prototyping, and setting up a framework for documentation.  AR Moon Colony…

At the beginning of Week 8, our team returned from spring break to the ETC. With the start of the second half of the semester, we wrapped up work for our first prototype, payload packing, in order to focus on our other two prototypes, the AR moon colony and mission control. AR Moon Colony   During…

Week 7 marks the end of the first half of the semester. We are halfway through our project and we only have seven more weeks left before we have to submit our final product. As such, our update for Week 7 will both briefly touch on our current project progress as well as our ½…

For Week 6, our team’s primary focus was on making sure that our payload packing experience would be ready for playtesting in time for Friday’s scheduled playtest. We also wanted to make more progress with the AR moon colony so that we could discuss it during ½ presentation. Since our ½ presentation time was on…