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A design/engineering strength
I think a design strength I have is I am able to try new things and bounce back when I make mistakes.
An area of growth
An area of growth when it comes to designing things is my memory as sometimes I can struggle to remember concepts.
Three things that I want to commit to in my documentation:
I want to commit fully documenting all of my ideation not just the final product
Making sure my photo quality is good is important
Keeping everything dated and in order
Circuit Board Ideation:
(Our initial ideas for our pcb circuit board we ended up choosing the dinosaur)
We chose the dinosaur because we think it will have good places to put the parts and it looks the best without having too many complicated shapes.
PCB Final:
We made a dinosaur because we wanted to. We like dinosaurs and we think it came out pretty well. I worked with Emma on this project. We will remember to not exit the auto-router early as we made that mistake like 3 times. In the future we will be more efficient because we know how to use eagle now.
Speaker Ideation:
I'm most likely to move forward with the tree speaker (number 2), the chicken (number 10b), the futuristic lamp (number 5b), and the snake (number 4). I'm worried about keeping the structure stable holding the speaker up.
Feedback Notes:
Inked Drawing Ideation Phase 2:
Preliminary Rhino Speaker:
Preliminary rhino speaker design (might edit later). I don't really like the foliage I want to change it.
I've finalized it by exploding and hollowing out the branches.
Materials I'm using are wood, fake foliage, and fake tree tape possibly. I'm also going to use acrylic as sort of a way to block the circuits and the phone holder. I'm uncertain about the branches letting the wires go into the speakers. I'm also wondering how to keep the tree suspended not falling into the circuits. I'm worried about the foliage as well.
Cardboard prototype: I did not make the foliage because I didn't have enough cardboard. It was also very unstable because the cardboard couldn't hold up the speaker boxes. As a result I used way too much tape.
Amplifier Circuit on Breadboard:
Without bluetooth
Three examples with bluetooth attachment
I learned about actually making working circuits and wiring. I actually didn't have too many issues with the wiring or the project itself. The one lesson I learned for improving is blocking my time better as it was a little rushed building this project because I tried to make the cardboard work and it took more of my time.
Digital section:
Documenting coding process
AMP PCB Design
I worked with Carolina. We would trade off for each section of building and connecting the schematic. In this way we each made similar contributions. This circuit board was tough because there were so many connections but this taught me about troubleshooting with eagle.
Digital Project Tutorial:
We did not solve a challenge as there was not enough time but we did do the examples, this is one of them. We tried the examples and this was just a photo of a face.
Link: https://gist.github.com/KaiOfDenmark/1dec2a8fdad14320fbb585980df8a39e
Digital Project Challenge 2:
We solved the weather challenge.
Github: https://gist.github.com/KaiOfDenmark/d042d3f746c12d5ec4160af220e849e8
Plan for Digital Project:
I plan on making a real time clock, I don't want to overcomplicate it because I have a very complicated design. Still deciding between the which feather to use, this will be embedded into my speaker. If I have extra time I might want to use the Feather ESP32 because I can also get weather on it.
Something along the lines of this image but less cluttered.
Un-soldered PCB:
This is my un-soldered PCB board which is the board that controls the speakers. I still have to solder the pieces in where the holes are but once that is complete I will be able to play noise through my speakers.
Soldered Shaped PCB:
This is my soldered pcb shaped like a Dino from the beginning of the year. I designed this with Emma.
Soldered PCB:
I learned how to efficiently solder big chunks of things that needed to be soldered. For example the row of pins taught me how to solder efficiently.
Enclosure Build Progress:
I still need to sand down my rough edges and also cover up some of the circuits with an acrylic panel.
Amplifier Completed Documentation:
Reflection questions:
I made a tree speaker it features a tree prominently and also utilizes lots of wood to give it a natural vibe.
I'm satisfied with the way the tree is held up. It was a very last minute idea.
I would cut my wood differently so it snaps together. I also wouldn't use excess glue because it's very prominently featured.
I will take with me my ideation and problem solving.
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