Tabitha and I are going to try to make out PCB in the design of a sheep. We are hoping to have the LEDs be in a necklace around the neck of the sheep and/or in the eye. We will also try to silkscreen some tufts on to the body.

I am going to build my amplifier as an owl. I chose this design for a few reasons. I like owls and I like how the design is a box but with a few simple changes will look like an owl. It is also simple enough to achieve but hopefully will look cute and not just like a box. The sides will be curved and the beak and ears will stick out. Additionally on the top there will be a screen which will display owl puns/jokes when the speaker is on. It is possible that I will add feet; I am still deciding.

My design is somewhat finished. I still have to make the circles holes and add the engraving but then I will be pretty close to done.

I learned that capacitors have different volt amounts and also that they are sometimes polarized but sometimes unpolarized. I see the purpose of breadboarding to be laying out a circuit and making sure it works before actually making the final version of the circuit. I see it as the space for trial and error and testing out different things.

Nikoli and I made our microcontroller change colors by row. We programed it to cycle through colors at random.

My idea is to program a OLED screen to display the temperature in Fahrenheit.  If I have time I would like to build a little box to hold it in. In an ideal world it would be battery opperated and have a motion sensor so it turns on if someone is close by. It will use an OLED screen with a motion sensor. It will also need a battery. It is possible that it will need another device but I am not sure.

Tabitha and I made this circuit board in the shape of a sheep.

The viewer is looking at the completed and soldered amplifier circuit board. It contains wires going to both speakers, a LED, a switch, and a volume control amongst other things.

My enclosure is almost done. I have cut all the parts and I just need to glue on the beak and ears. Once I do that my speaker will be done. My goal is to finish the speaker next class so I can use the remaining classes to work on the other projects.

I made an amplifier that is an owl type creature. I am most satisfied with the amplifier because it took a lot of work and perseverance but I was able to finish and make something that I am proud of. I would make a smaller speaker originally and think carefully about how all the parts were going to interact with each other. A lesson from this class that I will take with me is that even if something is frustrating I should not give up and keep trying.