A: Afternoon guys .
A: It's gonna be .
D: Rock and roll .
A: Oh .  A: 'Kay .
D: So do we need to re-train Mike on how to put his mic on ?
C: Think s
A: We may do .
D: Okay , can he get it all by himself this time ?
A: I dunno , I'm feeling like a big boy .
C: Mm . Pro
D: C: Probably not ,
C: 'cause he's 'S been listening to too much .
D: So C: He's getting retarded . Yay .
D: I believe I can fly .
B: Alright well we got some exciting stuff for you guys .
C: Or not .
B: Or not . C: Yeah .
D: Just what I needed was something exciting .
D: Remember , I'm an old man .
C: A: 'Kay , ready to go ?
B: All ready .
A: 'Kay so we've got our conceptual design meeting .
C: Apparently I'm old as well .
A: Hopefully we've all got exciting ideas now .
D: Thirty's really young , eh ?
B: We do .
A: Uh k exciting ideas .
A: 'Kay so here's our agenda our agenda . Um
C: A: I'm gonna open .
A: I'm gonna talk for a bit about what we're gonna do .
A: I'm gonna take some notes .
A: We're gonna all do a presentation ,
A: and then hopefully we're gonna make some decisions now .
A: Yep . B: Alright .
A: Well when I say hopefully , we have to . So
A: I'm gonna let you guys talk before we make decisions .
A: And does anyone really want to go first ?
C: B: I guess I'll go first .
A: You p two ?
B: Yeah .
A: What's B: Component , I think . Yeah .
A: Components design .
B: Yep that's it .
C: Presented by name .
C: B: My name is .
D: Jose he man is .
A: Your name is name ?
B: My name is name .
A: Huh hi name .
C: My name is Inigo Montoya .
A: C: You killed my father .
B: Sorry
C: Prepare to die . B: I did this in a bit of a rush .
D: N name .
B: So so here's a look inside your really old-looking remote control .
A: Right . B: Um you've got a printed a printed uh circuit board here ,
B: and you've got all these buttons which kinda press down little rubber nubbies into these little holes that activate D: A: We've all broke a remote control ri um s yeah . D: I've B: Yeah we've all broken a remote control .
C: B: So you've also got um you've got your chip here , your batteries here , and some sorta electronics . Um D: I just love you tech guys , huh .
C: Yeah there's a thingy and a dingy and A: You press this and it does th
D: Yeah y do jabber B: Well  C: B: so you've got here's here's a transistor , and this amplifies your signal ,
B: um you've got the L_E_D_ here on the end of the uh uh on the end of the printed circuit board .
B: Um you've got a couple diodes here for I don't know who and whatnot .
A: I dunno who and whatnot .
B: So  exactly .
C: Nah .
B: So um we've got a i in this in this uh drawing he uh in this example here , this is a eighteen pin um uh chip I dunno .
D: P
D: Yeah .
C: B: Uh it's two double A_ batteries .
B: This is pretty standard remote .
B: So here are options for our power sources .
B: You can use a basic battery , which we've already discussed ,
B: um th our tech department also said we have the option of doing some kind of hand dynamo where maybe you crank it or something like that .
A: 'Kay . C: I wanna change that .
B: I don't know if that's really D: I I gotta I gotta flashlight , and uh B: I don't know we got some qu crazy guys down there in that department so  C: A: Okay .
B: You shake it .
D: yeah
D: but it's interesting 'cause you shake it like this .
B: Yeah .
D: Like this .
C: B: So that's the next bullet is the um the kinetic provision of energy ,
D: And that's on the camera .
C: B: so it's like that flashlight where you have to shake it .
D: Yeah .
A: 'Kay .
B: Uh we've got solar cells ,
B: which I don't think is a very good idea because um you could not use your remote at night B: which doesn't make a lot of sense .
A: Mm 'kay .
B: And finally we've got our cradle o our power cradle idea .
A: Okay so we basically have battery versus cradle here ?
B: M battery versus cradle I think is yeah .
A: Okay .
C: I like the kinetic .
A: So we have battery versus cradle  D: I g I I figured you would . Yes . Yeah .
B: It could be fun .
A: It's actually a novel thing
A: because you could sell it a as a novelty ,
A: just to be actually serious for a minute here ,
B: Yeah .
A: you could B: Well it is it is more uh I mean it is more eco-friendly than the than the cradle
B: 'cause you're still using power off the grid with the cradle . So um
A: Mm .
A: Hmm .
B: our case design .
B: We have uh choices in materials
B: and choices in the general shapes that we can do .
B: Our material choices are a plastic latex um ty or plastic , a rubber latex type thing , uh wood , or titanium .
B: If we go with titanium we're gonna be uh limited in the amount of shapes we can do
B: because it's tough to shape the titanium , and uh B: Yeah pers
A: Wood wood would ge would give us a little bit of a marketing niche , wouldn't it .
B: I think wood i D: It it it A: Nah .
B: I I can't see anybody wanting to use a wooden remote ,
B: it's just anti-technology really , you know .
D: Uh .
A: Okay .
A: Hmm .
D: Uh uh to me in a marketing sense it's not it's not relative .
D: We can we can o we can uh accentuate whatever D: whatever product you put in there we can find a way to accentuate it .
B: Right .
B: And what we may be able to do , and I think this might be the best option is to combine some a couple of these .
A: Okay .
B: Um my recommendation personally would be to do some kind of a plastic inner shell with a like a rubber outer shell ,
B: to make it um to mak uh like a thick plastic inner shell
B: and a t um kind of a to have that rubber outer shell to make it more durable ,
B: and also maybe i I think it feels a little better than the plastic .
A: 'Kay . Do you get a good grip on the rubber ?
B: Yeah um A: Yeah okay . D: And if you make it from that super rubber , when you drop it on the floor it can bounce right back up in your hand .
B: Yeah .
D: You don't even need to lean down to get it .
C: B: The advantages of working with plastic and rubber is w we we'll have a lot more um options just in terms of shape
D: B: because you can extrude plastic in basically any shape you want .
B: So um and then we can cover you know the breakable bits with rubber yeah so um A: Okay .
B: But basically these are curved and double-curved
B: I I believe that the tech department , in their um in their message to me , that they were referring to the number of th curves in the bottom .
B: I have no idea exactly what they're talking about ,
B: but that's what they told me , uncurved , flat , curved , or double-curved .
A: Okay .
C: B: I would guess this like this pen would be kinda like a double-curved ,
B: where it's curved on m m multiple axes , right ?
B: I think curved means just curved in one axis
B: and double-curved is curved in two axes
A: Okay .
B: or surfaces . I have no idea .
A: I think it might mean something like that sorta shape
A: because a double curve rather than a D: Mm-hmm yeah that's yeah that's what I see .
B: Oh okay oh like a wave , okay .
A: yeah that's what .
D: Yeah that's what I see also .
B: Alright that makes sense okay .
B: Um okay , with the interface we have the following options ,
B: we can u we can use push buttons ,
B: we can use a scroll wheel with an integrated push button ,
B: and L_C_D_ display ,
D: Ooh .
B: or multiple scrolling wheels .
B: Um so these are all options that the user interface guy can uh has at his disposal to put together a user interface .
A: Okay .
B: For electronics , we have these very technical um descriptions here .
B: A simple chip , which is the least expensive ,
B: but I have no numbers to give you ,
A: B: a regular chip , which is like the medium porridge the medium expense uh A: A: D do we have actually any concept of what the difference is between a simple chip and an advanced chip ?
B: Yes
B: the difference is , with a simple chip a simple chip will operate B: oh why doesn't this scroll up ?
B: Previous previous , okay .
B: A simple chip is required to operate push buttons .
B: Um an advanced chip is required to to operate um the L_C_D_ display ,
A: Okay .
B: and it didn't say specifically , but I I have a hunch that a regular chip is gonna be the scroll wheel and the multiple scroll wheels .
A: Okay .
B: So but yeah .
A: Yeah that makes sense .
B: That's the end of my presentation .
A: So presentation from I guess design would go best . Next .
A: Technical functions or interface concept ?