Final Project

Purpose

For the final Project, we are making an infinity mirror. The purpose of this project is to combine all the tools that we've learned and some tools we are yet to learn all in one project, instead of several different projects. In this project we are gonna work with woodworking it design the perfect frame for the mirror. In addition, we will solder and program LEDs onto the wood .

Day 1: On the first day we were given the assignment of using tinkercad to program a LED light using an arduino.

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Day 2: After I got my digital version to work, I had to find a way to create a real life version of my tinkercad design in real life. I was given a personal Arduino and other materials in tinkercad. The purpose of this was to

Problem I Encountered

My arduino didn't have anything to connect my wires to the arduino so it was difficult to keep the wires still when I inserted it. So to solve this problem, I was given a connector to solder into my arduino.

Day 3: This is my Arduino with the the part I was given soldered into it.

Day 3: While we were working with our arduinos we also had to cut our acrylic 6x6 glass for our mirrors. This is the video.

day 4: a couple days after cutting our acrylic glass we had to cut out four wood pieces and sand the corner. This is the video.

Day 5: Our next step was to use our Neopixel strip and attach wires onto it to be able to program it with our Arduino. I soldered and hot glued it the wires so they don't get loose.

Day 5: I Then attached female wires to the wires i soldered on. O striped one side of the female wires and soldered the wires to the red, black, and grey wires.

Day 6: The red wire was the power, the black wire was ground, and the grey was my pin number. I connected the corresponding wires to the correct places on my Arduino and tested it.

After I succeseffuly soldered my strip and tested it, the next step was to connected the rest of my strips.

Days 7-9: This is all 4 neopixel strips soldered together with red, black, and grey wires. Wile soldering this together I had to make sure the arrows on the strips pointed the same way and that the colored wires were placed correctly on the strip.

Day 9: Tested my soldered wires with my programmed Arduino, that I got from the google classroom, to make sure everything worked.

Day 10: I cut a small line in all my four pieces of wood.

Day 11: I Cut the electrical whole in my all my wood pieces.

Day 11: I Drilled the electrical hole into one piece of my wood.

Day 11: I then used wood glue to glue all of my pieces together.

Day 11: I then grabed one of my acrililic squares and a cut 6x6 mirror piece and glued it together to make this.

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12: The next step was to connect the correct wires to the Arduino and the board. Once I correctly connected the wires, I transferred it to the actual board I was going to use for the infinity light.

Day 12: This is the board with the connected wires.

Day 13: This is the video of my wired board with my arduino powering my LED light strip.

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Problems i Encountered

The major problem I encountered was that my LED lights weren't powering on. At first there was a small moment where it powered on but after that it stopped working completely. Mrs. Morrow work with me to see if we could fix the problem. She added solder to the ends of the wires on my LED, she checked the amount of power on the LED lights and the adapter to see if it was receiving any power, and she resoldered the power wire into the board. All our attemps at fixing the problem didn't work.

After winter break, I had to order new LED light strips to put in my wood frame.

This is my new LED placed around my frame.

After that I placed my mirror on top and hot glued it so it wouldn't fall out.

This is my final product pluged in and working.

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