Fine tuning

After getting feedback I added in a funnel at the top to act as a reservoir for the water and sealed it with electrical tape. The hosing kept curling which was unexpected and was able to solve the problem by strapping them down with cable ties on to the mounting board (as well as the hosing valves). I got feedback from Luke that I should paint the board that the piece is going to be mounted on. White would complement the colours of the water and would be the colour to pull the least amount of attention away from the piece.
I wanted to find out how I was going to hang my piece for exhibition, so I asked John the technician and he directed me to Chris on first floor. He told me the best way was if he hooked up chains and I drilled some holes into my mount, so that my piece would be suspended, much like the hanging walls for exhibitions.

Testing on users.

After I constructed my piece I tested it on my roommate. His thoughts are summarised as follows:
- He was excited by the concept of having different many different tubes with different colours and found the concept easy to understand with little explanation.
- He thought that seeing the sponges were a hindering the overall look.
- He said that adding a funnel at the top, instead of just having a tube would be and easier and more efficient water reservoir.
- Didn’t seem fazed by the look of the taps and connectors.

Research: Showing the flow of running an IF/else statement.

I was able to find proper clear hosing at Bunning’s warehouse but was stuck on whether to use regular hosing valves or ball valves. After extensive research into different types of valves to use I was unable to one with one input and two outputs that could only have one on at a time, so I decided to go with the second best thing; having one input with two outputs that have the option of having the left flowing by itself, right flowing by itself or both at the same time.

After talking to the workshop technician she had the suggestion of drilling a hole in the side of the ball valve so that I could insert the sponge inside and have easy access to re-soaking them with food colouring and also have a good way of secretly containing the sponge from sight. This was taken into serious consideration.
I decided to go with the regular hose fitting because it would be much more cost effective than paying for brass ball valves which would almost double or triple my budget.