Elli Steinbach

Hello Post!

Design/Engineering strength of mine is my collaboration ability, if we're working in groups or pairs to design or engineer something I feel confident in making everyone feel included and know their ideas are being heard.

Area for growth for me is definitely in my coding abilities. Due to covid i never got the full D&T experience and I missed out on a lot of the details of designing the lamp, in particular the circuits, so when it comes to coding I have a lot to learn.

Three things I want to commit to in the documentation of my learning and projects are..

Keeping my page organized and clean so it is easy to see the work I am doing and it what order it has been created.
Taking clear well lit, well centered pictures of the work I create
Documenting the progression of my work and not just beginning and end.

Final Speaker

I made a pretty simple design I really wanted it to fit anywhere I put it and I am really happy with the minimal designs I did I think they turned out really well
I am satisfied with my soldering with my amplifier I worked really hard on it and I am happy the hard work paid off and it works!
I would spend more time learning the coding because it doesn't come super easily to me and it's still pretty confusing
I will take away the value of perservierence and just bravery to try things you've never done before, I would not have thought I could make a speaker in a semester and yet here we are!

Enclosure building process

I need to glue my enclosure together!

Soldered Amplifier

This is my soldered amplifier!

Final Digital Project

PCB Final

Bruno and I made a rocketship

Digital Project Idea

I love capybaras so I really want to put a picture of one for my digital project.

Unsoldered Amplifier

Screen Image

Light Bouncing

Amp PCB

This is the schematic and board design. My partner was Nikolai

Challenge Done

Breadboard Progress

I learned how important it is to double check the connections and to make sure everything works accordingly. The purpose of breadboarding is to understand all the pieces that will be on the schematic and make sure everything works before the final circuit board.

Cardboard Prototype

I learned how great a tool laser printing is and I also realized my cardboard model won't fit together perfectly because my design is accounting for the width of the wood to have it fit perfectly together and the cardboard isn't as thick as the wood so there are gaps in the model that won't be in the actual thing.

Modeled Enclosure Design

Phase 2 Drawing

I chose this design because I thought it would make the construction of the amplifier simple while bringing life and more of me to the decorations and wood burning on the exterior. I feel like this design should be manageable and fun for someone like me who hasn't had much experience with technology like this.

10 Amplifier Ideation Sketches

PCB Final Design and Schematic

What I learned:

Through this process I learned how to arrange a schematic for the best result with the LED brightness and the significance of parallel schematics in that. I also learned how to import DXFs from rhino. Lastly I learned how important the arrangement of the board is because it really does make or break if the board works.

PCB Ideation Sketches

Bruno and I Brainstormed a lot of ways to use LEDs in fun and interesting ways and these were some of the first ideas we came up with.

As we took more time to think things through we decided to go for designs that would have the LEDs come out the back of them for example a plane, a rocket ship and a cloud with a lightning bolt. Those refined sketches can be found on Bruno's page.

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