Chris León

Engineering Learning Goal: Better understand: Voltage, Current, Resistance, Power, and Energy

I want to understand these words because I want to make the best lamp I can. Understanding these words are essential to making a good sounding speaker.

Design Learning Goal: Design for a balance of sonic quality and visual interest

I really want my speaker to be equally as aesthetically pleasing, as it is pleasing to the ear. I feel like a lot of the intricate designs don't actually create a good sounding speaker. For my design I want to create a design that compliments the sound, but also looks nice. I think it is extremely important to have a speaker be good sounding and also visually pleasing.

Equity and Inclusion Learning Goals: Collaboration is a key component to social and professional success. Consider: How am I becoming a better collaborator?

Collaboration is a key component for everyone. If someone needs help I feel that everyone, including myself should help that person. I'm sure I am going to need help at sometime during this class, and I want someone who is willing to help me too.

Our assignment was to draw ten different speaker designs that we might want to use for our final speaker. I am most excited about the second to the top on the left most paper. I really like this design because I think it is simple and neat. I also think it will sound really good because of its design. The feedback I received from my classmates is that I should make sure the speakers are connected well, but still making it neat.

These are the photos of my amplifier in a digital rendering and a cardboard prototype. The picture of the cardboard prototype has only one of the two speaker enclosures because they are symmetrical. In the rhino design of the amplifier, the two grey circles represent where the LEDs are located. There will also be a chord through the oval shapes, connecting both amplifiers.

These are my digital project ideas. I am most likely going to do the idea on the top of the left side. I think having the circular LEDs under the speaker looks very neat. Both the circular shape of the LEDs and the circular shape of the speaker look nice together.

This is my digital project for my speaker. I have faded colors from pink to purple to blue.

This the a photo of my circuit map for my amplifier project.

Soldering my circuit went very well. I was able to have a very organized finished circuit that worked the first time I tested it. Something I learned is to make sure you catch mistakes earlier than late. Luckily I recognized my mistakes as soon as I did them rather than later. It is also important to make sure your schematic is correct.

I have measured my wood and have laid out each of the cuts I need to make. I have also planed my wood.

Here is a picture of my enclosure so far. I have cut all my pieces, but still need to cut a few sides at a 45 degree angle. After break I need to cut the hole for my speakers and glue my enclosure together.

I am most satisfied with the accuracy and neatness of the final outcome. If I were to start over I would move the speakers down a little to make them centered. I would also add beeswax to finish my wood. A lesson I learned is that I need to think everything through when measuring because I had to make my boxes smaller than I had planned.