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Hello Post!
Hello Post!
Design/engineering strength: One of my strengths is being flexible when things don't go according to the plan. Many times last year in D and T there where many mistakes made which lead to a need to adapt to a new design. Because of this, I have become more resilient and learned to go with the flow when a change is needed.
Design/engineering growth: One place where I still have a lot of room for growth is coding. Even with learning how to code last year with our lamps, I never fully got the hang coding and being able to fully understand what is going on. With that, my goal this year is to try to relearn it and be able to more easily code things.
Three commitments: Three commitments I have for my documentation process are first to take good quality photos. Last year almost all of my photos were takes while being rushed so you I didn't have very good angles and you couldn't see the product as a whole very well. My second goal is to have thorough explanations about whats going on in each photo. I think I did a pretty good job of this last year but I want to make sure to keep it up because I think it's really important that anyone can read your explanation and understand everything going on in your picture. Lastly, I want to make sure that I make sure that my documentation process is organized. By this, I mean that all my post are in order from first to last post and that pictures correlate to the description and are not just all over the place.
PBC design
PBC design
For this design, my partner and I collectively came up with eight ideas. In the end we decided to go with the side view of the turtle just because we both like that design the best and we like turtles!
Collaborative PBC
Collaborative PBC
For this project, I worked with Katie to make a turtle shaped PBC. To do this, we created a turtle on rhino and once we got it to our liking, we exported it to Eagle. I will remember from this project that flexibility and patience is so important when creating something because lots of things can go wrong and you'll need to be flexible to adapt to whatever needs change and you'll need to trust the process.
Speaker sketches
Speaker sketches
Out of the three circled ideas I have, I think i'm going to go with the bubble shaped one with a bunch of spheres. The only concern I have with this is just making sure there is a place to hold the battery pack, electronics, etc, but i'm sure i'll figure that out as I go forward with the design process
Feedback
Feedback
Phase 2 drawing
Phase 2 drawing
Prototype
Prototype
This is my current prototype. For my speaker, I am thinking of using wood for the main box part and acrylic for everything inside. My only worry for this project is that I wont have enough material but if I work carefully I should be ok.
Amp Circuit
Amp Circuit
This is my circuit board for my speakers. During this process, I learned that I have to be careful with my soldering because if not then the rest of the circuit wont work.
Python worksheet 1
Python worksheet 1
Python worksheet 2
Python worksheet 2
Python worksheet 2
Python worksheet 2
For the amp pbc design I worked with ruby. As partners we both even split up the work. For a bit I would go through the worksheet and read off/tell ruby what to do, then we would switch roles. During this project I better learned how to translate the work we do on breadboards to the online schematics.
Microcontroller
Microcontroller
For this activity, Margo and I didn't really face any challenges other than not being able to try out different things because of limited time.
https://gist.github.com/avery-c-yang/e389aba09e8b10dc7be6191fe8801396#file-avery-margo-image
Microcontroller pt.2
Microcontroller pt.2
Today, margo and I worked on our microcontroller together. One problem we faced is when we had to use the secret file, we didn't know that we had to create a whole new file for it. At first we put it in the code.py file. However to fix this, we just made a new file called secret.py and pased the code in there and it worked!
Digital Project
Digital Project
For my digital project, I am going to use the microcontroller and display the time on it. I am going to put this on my speaker, the tv.
Circuit Board
Circuit Board
Before
After
PBC project pt.2
PBC project pt.2
This is my PBC project! For this project, I worked with Katie to make a turtle shaped PBC.
FINAL PROJECT
FINAL PROJECT
For my final project, I made a tv! I am most satisfied/happy about just finishing the project in general. If I were to do this again, I would measure out my materials more proportionately. One thing I will take from this class is to go with the flow and just know that things are going to go wrong and that's ok.
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