Brock Pola

I really want to learn not to rush and take my time. During the construction of my lamp, I felt a sense of urgancy, which consequently effected my final project. I took away from this that its better to spend more time and do it carfully than rush and just throw everything together. I want to take those learnings into this class, and hopefully make amazing finished products that I am proud of.

Hello!

Design engineering strength: I can come up with really good ideas fast, and figure out how it will work.

Area for growth: I can listen to my partners more, because they have amazing Ideas, and I don't want to exclude them.

3 commitments:

Make sure everything is on my site, even when I mess up.
listening to everyone in my class, and hearing their opinion
Get to know some of the upper classmen and learn from their wisdom.

We decided to make the apple tree, because we thought that it would look really cool, and would be a great way to incorporate a bunch of lights to a board while also having all of the essensal components.

Natalie and I have made a apple tree circit board. We are hoping to have the apples light up a nice red color. I really liked this desighn because of how cool and how many lights we could fit on the board. It will be a soddering challenge.

Here is our finishe PCB tree. We had a lot of difficulties with making the outline of the tree, because of how many small details there were. originaly we had all of our resisters clumped up in the hull of the tree, but then realized it would be a really difficult job for the auto router to make all of the connections between that and the lights, thus deciding to spread it out and make it so it looks more like apples (The lights) and pinecones (The resistors)

The top one on this page is a image of a wave, and speakers being under the weave. it would be difficult getting that shape, but if exicuted properly, think it would be cool!

The one i chose here, was an old fashond televisoin with diles, and the botom corners are the speakers. I was thinking maybe put a few lights in the tv section, and use that to make it more realistic.

This one is simple, and it uses the shape of my name and the O in Brock to hold the speaker. It would be pretty straight forward, and would look cool!

Finaly, this one is more of a modern minimalistic desighn. It would use a phone shaped piece of acrilic to get a buitiful shape out of the material. I was going for a nothing kind of feel, where you couldnt see anything, and it just looked weird.

This is a retro tv. the speakers will be on the side, and the tv will have a "cooling grade" on the right side. there are tv entenas on top, and the tv hopefully will be liting up using LEDs

Soddering is obviously not my strong suit, but by some mirical the entire thing worked on my first time! the apples are lighting up, and overall it looks pretty good.

This is my rhino model. it has a removable back plate that is suposed to snap on. the screen of the tv will be seethrough plexy glass, which will hopfully have random colord lights coming out of it. I also plan on having the light corispond with the sound coming out of the plant. I plan on using two different kinds of wood, and small little pieces of metal bar that are going to be used for the base of the tv.

The one problem that I had while making my prototype was my rhino model had different dimensions that acounted for the width in the wood. because of this, I was left with pieces being ofbalanced due to the forced connect piece that were supposed to be different widths due to the hight of the wood. as you can see, some of the piece dont fit perfectly, and there are some gaps, but the electronics and speakers do fit!

Here is my completed breadboarded circuit. After a lot of trial and error, it finally worked!

Here are the links to my python worksheets :)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IxESh74QDbefQCS_Kl08OuvEO64Plx_NCvTGCQhg1w8/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B-FWQ1S_-mpblaoDsUdpbaqySsUpCeJdcySq8yrfF0I/edit

Our Finished PCB

Manu and Brock's PCB design on Eagle. Manu and Brock evenly split connecting parts on the schematic. Brock checked the connections. Manu routed the board and Brock added more tigers to show our LWHS pride.

I learned that it can be difficult to attach the wires, and always have to make sure you connect them properly

We have it so the colors are the same, but when sound is play, the ring will light up the persentage level it is.

In this we got the lights to change from all being lit up, to just one being lit up. we also were abel to change the color, and import a photo to the screen.

I dont have the code, so I cant submit it to my ghist right now, but later I can get it!

Olivia and I played around with the Feather ESP32-S2 controller, and got data from a different Muni stop on a different line—the Divisadero to 30th St & Mission St!

I am hoping that the lights will flicker sidways the distance of how loud the sound is. i want to make it so that it randomly rotates the sound, because it would look a little bit cooler. im unsure if its possible to do that, but if so it would be really nice. i dont know how much space we will have, but hopuflly it will see through the acrilic.

This is our final circuit board!!! As you can see, we went a little crazy with the tigers, and put them all underneath where our main prosessor goes. we chose white so it didnt interfere with eather manu or I's color scheme. overall, it looks really good, and i am very happy with how it turned out :)

Here is my final sodderd circet board!!! it all worked, but unfortunatly i fried my micro chip. because of this, i had to re sodder the chip multiple times, which was not good. it took a while to figure it out.

Here is my progress photo! this is me finishing gluing the enclosure for my speaker! overall it is turning out really good. its going to be challenging to attatch the speakers, but the outside is looking really good!

Final documentation!!!! Here is my finished tv! the tv light up depending on the level of sound! overall, i am very proud of it, and it looks very good!

I was hoping to make it look like a retro tv. as of doing this, I have a class day to finish working on it, thus I may add a few entenas on top to make it so that it looks simalar to the simpsons tv. The dile on the front adjusts the volium, and the speakers are really lowed. It was a lot of fun making this, and I defenetly had a lot of troble making sure everything worked. There were a lot of problems with my micro chip, but after replacing it, it ended up working perfectly!

If i were to start over, I might have picked a more advanced desighn. It was pretty cool and fun trying new stuff out, and having that atonomy with a less complecated desighn, but if it were more complex then I would be more satisified with the end result. this project defenetly pushed me with patience. I had to spend a lot of time figuring out my speaker circut, but eventually i got it completed and was able to continue to the more fun part of making the enclouser!

Here is the link to my code for the digital project: https://gist.github.com/borthalmue/010b58050c08445740b7c750723cfb85

Here is my digital project!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zbwqtHRMHgT7lK--l33VODoHpXG3Vo2B/view?usp=drive_link

I used the microphone and the neopixel grid so that the neopixel grid would change brightness depending on how loud the music was. it is calibrated to be around half volum, thus when there is a loud part of the speaker, it will be fuller, while if its quiet, it will be less bright. Overall, it was a little challenge to make, but I am proud of how it ended up looking!

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