Public demonstration before a demanding audience as the course-completion exercise provides great motivation for team success. Students studied architecture plans, shot videos and observed this big system up close over a three-month period. Each student kept a log of their challenges and solutions on a project web page so that related efforts stayed in synch. Physical models, animations, digitized videos and an archived mail list steadily grew into a big site. Lots of discussion and testing produced a cool and compelling miniature world.
Visitors often report feeling a sense of familiarity and presence reminiscent of the big tank.
So we kept it simple. Stepping through the many viewpoints tells the story better than words. Two minutes and 59 seconds of vocal babbling on top of all that goes by pretty fast. The copyright of articles and images printed remains with the author unless otherwise indicated.