Post #5

Building the actual radio has been a long process and there were many changes. We realized that our initial plan was ambitious and that it was only practical for us to build a solar powered, battery powered radio without a hand crank. Also, the materials that we bought at first turned out to be useless because the guides online on how to build a radio are not reliable. After more research, we realized that it would be best for us to find a circuit diagram of a radio receiver and follow it.

The materials for our new radio circuit diagram had to be bought at Apliu street in Kowloon, and we had to browse many different shops because the individual components are not easy to find, since they are very specific.

Here is our final circuit plan, and we have successfully made it work.

Since the construction took up most of the time, we did not have enough time to do the packaging but we were able to get a lot of information about how to distribute this product of ours once we are able to produce more of the same radios, and have a packaging for the radio.

Finding time to work with my partners have been difficult at times, however all of our meetings have been very productive so we were able to do a lot every time.

Post #4 Materials

Our group has already come up with a basic plan of what the circuitry of the radio-communicator box would be like. We also found plans for making the two way and one way radio we'll be making soon. The next step would be to find all the materials and buy them. We plan on buying them in Kowloon. Before that, we have to show Dr. Diehl one more time our general circuitry to see if everything makes sense.

I have asked for permission to work in a lab in Hong Kong Polyu with our materials when making our radio.

Post #3 - Progress

We have met once, and talked about it only briefly. We have a few ideas on how to start this project and what procedures we should follow, but we haven't decided on which one to use yet. Once we have decided we will be consulting Dr. Diehl, we also heard that Mr. Nolasco is good with circuits, so if we need help we might also be looking for him. In the upcoming week we will meet up again to decide on this and hopefully we can start the building process.