Henry Gammell

First Site Post

An area of strength for me is my ability to look at a problem from multiple perspectives.

An area of growth for me is definitely tidiness/cleanliness. My ideas tend to sprawl and sometimes its difficult to go back and check what my ideas were.

I want to commit to:

documenting everything (on time) 2. getting good photo/work quality 3. keeping my site both simple but organized.

First ideas:

This design is definitely not final but this was the design that my group members Marisa and Evan came up with as a first design. For our project we might want to experiment with a lighting bolt or something similar.

What I learned

I learned a lot about circuits and how to design them. I learned about how to convert something from rhino to eagle as well as re-learning how to laser cut. I made a minion out of 2 different acrylics but I don't have a photo.

Speaker Ideation sketches

my 10 (11) ideation sketches. My 3 favorites are underlined 3 times.

My Speaker Idea

This design is based off Tetris blocks, they would be separable but i also want to make them be able to attach in different configurations. this would be very hard because I need a wire to connect the 2.

My design + speaker

I created a similar design to the one above, I have all the right measurements and will likely change some stuff.

My Circuits

The speaker circuits. I got it to work on the second attempt. I learned about how alligator clips can be used to connect things outside of the breadboard. This was very interesting because I didn't think about how we would connect something not compatible with the breadboard.

My speaker prototype

I learned about how I can connect some pieces instead of having them sperate which will help me by not having to glue as many pieces together. I also did change the two speakers to be connected as opposed to be being separate which will save material and time.

My code

As shown in the # part I was trying to get the list to run in reverse but I couldn't figure it out so I just used the clunky solution instead.

PCB design

Amy and my pcb design.

My code for the feather

Marisa and I made this code that makes the LED's light up in the top right quadrant. This was done with for loops and positioning of the LED's on a plane.

Feather Clock

My partner was Ernesto we worked on attaching many things to the feather like this clock. We had to import some libraries as I grabbed the wrong feather. A microcontroller uploads, runs, and stores code that the user uploads onto the device. Then using this code the Microcontroller executes it.

My Digital Project (idea):

I want to have a feather attached to the LED pannel. It would light up in different colors according to different decibel levels. it would create a very cool effect when placed next to my speaker.

PCB

Amy and my pcb that we made.

First PCB

don't have a photo and it isn't soldered, but my partner was even and we made a rhino, in rhino. I had some issues with one of the LED's but its fixed now.

My Soldered Amp

I have soldered my Amp circuit I just don't have a photo of it, Ill update when I do.
Edit: I have already put my circuit into my enclosure so here's a picture with the circuit in it.

Enclosure build process

I have laser cut all of my piece I just need to assemble them, and possibly start my digital project. I should be able to put everything together by next class, hopefully.

My "Finished" Amp

Pictured here is my "finished" tetris block speaker. Im very satified with the way the actual circuit turned out. It functions and looks nice. If I were to do it again I would spend more time getting the messurments correct on each piece so that I didnt need to butcher it on the bandsaw. I will take the lesson of perserverence and also the ability to adapt and overcome into future classes. I had quite alot of issues with it all fitting together but in the end it will look decent.

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