Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Week 4 Design of Everyday Things


When I moved into this house about 15 years ago, this system was explained to me by the installer. It has the following features: alarm, interphone, radio, clock... but looking at it today, I noticed it has so many botoms that I started wonder if it did anything else. Actually it does not work anymore, the installer has moved away, the maker is in Canada and the closest support center is in Oakland. They are not sure what to charge me for the house call since they can't predict the time it would have the driver to cross the Bay-Bridge.
I tried to use the system today for this assignment and nothing worked, not even the radio. I made a digram of the system on the left. I got used to have it as part of the living-room decoration.

1 comment:

Come and See Africa said...

Living room decoration? I have a broken, ugly ceiling fan for my living room decoration. It came with the parsonage that our church has provided for us.