I think an area of strength for me in this class would be putting effort into my work, and trying to problem solve. An area of growth for me would be workibg with rhino. I will commit to taking clear pictures to my site, to consistantly post with a thoughtful description, and to post the same day as class so I don't forget.

Our idea that we chose, was the lady bug. We chose it because it was our first initial idea, and we thought it would be super cool to make it's spots LED's. We thought this idea was very doable but would also challenge us.

Our design is a lady bug, we made the LED's as its spotds and the actual board color red. My partner was Kyra, and we both collaaborated on this project. One thing I will remember is creating a circuit where everything is connected so that all the lights can equally light up.

I will be using birch wood for the base of the porqupine and brown acrylic for the details of the porqupine. I'm curious if I will successfully carve the wood to the appropiate shape and if it will look realistic.

this is my circuit board, this was a new experience for me. It was super cool to make and complete. The hardest part for me was being super precise to which hole my wire goes in.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12QuSU28svJyPXXajT_Rla0ahibm9m7-H1NJedx8sBms/edit This is our Python Program practice doc.

Micro Controller

Capybara Gist- GitHub

we did not have time to complete one of the challenge poroblems because we ran out of time in class. We struggled to get the emoji to show up on the controller so that was something that we would have worked through if we did not run out of time.

Micro Controller Challenges

the challenges me and Anakarina did were adding your own image and connecting to the lick wifi. We were able to insert a cabybara image pretty easily. Although for the connecting to wifi we struggled because it said we had a error multiple times, it said the password we added into the code was wrong. By the end of class we were able to figure it out.

Gist Hub- Capybara Challenge Gist

My Digital Project Idea.

for my digital project I want to the screen to be like my capybara example from where it goes from text to the image. I will use the micro controller to make this happen. When I start putting my electronics into my final project it will be in the same compartment as my speakers.

My Amplifier

This is my unsoldered amplifier, eventually it will be soldered and will be incoorperated in my speaker.

PCB

This is our lady bug PCB that me and Kyra made earlier in the year. This was a super fun project that I have never done before.

Enclosure Progress

I have printed all of my acrylic, and about 80% of my wood. I only need to print 2 rectangle pieces of wood to complete the box that will be holding up the porquepine. After I print that out I will just have to glue everything together and it will be complete.

Final Speaker

I made a porquepine speaker, and something I am most satisfied with is my wood cut out and my acrylic. Something I wish I could change about about my design would be to hide my electronics somewhere like in the box. A lesson from this class was persisting when things got hard or confusing. One take away from this semester would be the lasor cutters, because it was very new to me and I hadn't really used it last year.