Last Week of Work

Where are we now? What is left?

Our current situation can be aptly summarized by these two pictures, the head programmer angrily working out the bugs in the code while the product taunts and frustrates him with its unwillingness to work the way it is supposed to.  Well that was where we were... In the last day, and this last week, I have one job. To take that giant mess of wires and minimize it, make it look nicer and be more permanent. To accomplish that, I have this tiny bread board:



... Somehow I feel that by the time I'm done with this, I'm actually going to be rather good at soldering. Well, at least better than I am now.

This is my last job and frankly, it is my last chance to contribute. I wired the original prototype and I might have provided the original idea, but all the coding and most of the work has really been done by my partner. I have very little claim on what the product currently is. I hope by doing a good job on this part, I can actually prove that I was a contributing member of the team.

Now the last thing I need to talk about before presenting on this product is where this idea falls on the fallowing diagram:



So, what are we building? I would hope that this emergency first aid device is not new technology in an existing market but for a while I actually believed it was. Needless to say when the success percentages popped up I was rather distraught. I thought that the internet of things was something new, something rarely heard of, while the problems with emergency first response were age old and well recorded. Now I know better, I think, the internet of things is rather new but it has already become the foundation of modern appliances. So, while not entirely new, IoT can be said to be a field that is deeply rooted but still branching out into new application. Similarly, the problems in emergency response, while recorded, have never been addressed in an appropriate way or really at all. Finally this puts this product, if it is found to be a viable solution to the problem, into the 31-37% chance of success... Not perfect (kinda like the product) but better than nothing.