Strength: 

I think one of my strengths is that I'm organized and clean. This will allow me to keep the space I'm using to work remain easy to navigate. 

Area for Growth: 

An area for growth is my technological skills. I am generally not comfortable coding specifically, so becoming more confident technologically would be nice. 

Three Commitments: 

When documenting my learning and projects, I will commit to:

1. Consistently taking photos during my progress so I have an abundance of photos to choose from to add to the site. 

2. Writing clear and concise captions to properly portray to the reader my process

3. Consistently posting on the site and not posting late so that the site will be up to date with the projects I'm doing. 

This is our primary idea for a PBC design. Our original idea was more of a squiggle, but this could also be changed into a lightning bolt as well. While this is more of a simple design, it could definitely be advanced and improved upon later. My partners are Henry and Evan.

What I learned: I learned how to effectively communicate with my partners online considering I was not in person last week

Something I learned from this process is how I'm going to situate the snails so they organize in a way that I like best. 

Something I'm rethinking is how I'm going to structure the LEDs in the acrylic part because it might be a bit too difficult to complete given the time constraints. I'm also thinking about how I'm going to layer the acrylic with the wood to create a more 3D illusion while still providing enough room for the speaker.

Something I learned while breadboarding is how to properly read schematics.

The purpose of breadboarding is to lay out the wires and things in order to make sure that they work before soldering them. 

Linda and I took a clipart off the internet and were able to get the microcontroller to display the design. It could be very interesting to utilize this in order to display time on my speaker. 

shape: rhinoceros

partners: Evan and Henry

This is my soldered amplifier circuit. Since then I have shortened some of the wire lengths to fit in the box better and fixed the ones that didn't seem to stay soldered.

This is the one speaker I have decided to make. From the time I took this photo, I have now printed out and organized the box the snail is going to sit on and have figured out the configuration inside the box for it to fit. Now, all I need to do is permanently assemble it all with glue and add the finishing touches. Because this was quite a time-consuming project, I have been coming in during some free blocks and basically every day after school, and my hope is to do so until the semester is over. 

Using walnut wood and acrylic, I was able to build a snail speaker. I am the most satisfied with how the snail ended up looking, as I was debating many different strategies to build it. Although there are ways I could continue to shape the snail, I unfortunately ran out of time at the end of the semester. If I were to start over I would try to find the time to incorporate more LEDs and my digital project, as those were in my original plans but weren't on the final design. A lesson that I'll take with me is how to plan realistically, as the original plan I had made for this speaker would have been incredibly difficult to make within the time constraints.