My design/engineering strength: I come up with creative ideas and love using Rhino.

My area of growth: I haven't had enough design experience to know instinctively how to best bring my ideas into fruition.

My commitments:

• Not waiting until the last minute to update my site

• Taking high-quality photos of my work

• Documenting the mistakes I make along the way

Meshi and I chose to make a chicken bone because the shape is recognizable and random. I came across the idea when I drew a flat cap (the hat I wear), and Natalie thought it was a piece of steak. This gave us the idea to make a chicken bone!

Planning on using a lot of acrylic, as well as some wood for the base. My main concern is the size and proportions

My breadboard design to power my speaker, adjust volume, connect my speakers to bluetooth, and more.

I learned a lot about problem solving and troubleshooting. Since designing a circuit board is complicated, there was no way my speakers would work the first time. But with the help of Mr. Kleindolph and my peers, I learned how to identify the problems I had and find solutions. This is a skill I will apply to my other interests, including data analysis and crossword making.

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 to be very careful when connecting parts, as it's easy to make a mistake. Always check for the green circle when connecting wires!

Sanya and I got the neopixel grid up and working, and played around with the colors. At first, it wasn't connecting because we hadn't added the right libraries. We then added the right ones, but it still didn't work. So we removed the wrong libraries, and finally it started to work!

Link to challenge:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zpWp78WrZGPmagbGEAYwK2Ze3EzyIa4e/view?usp=sharing

We displayed our own image and words on the screen. We replaced the words in the sample code with "Swim" and "Free," and replaced the sample image with an image of a mermaid. We kept accidentally pressing the "boot" button and got confused why the Feather kept disconnecting!

I am placing my digital screen in the front of the Whack-A-Mole Machine, on the top right. I am using the Feather ESP32-S2, and it will be a part of the analog project. My plan is to have a picture of a hole, and then switch to a picture of a mole!

One soldered, this bad boy will make my speakers work! Designed by Brock Pola and myself.

Meshi and I finished soldering our lovely chicken bone! (I promise it works...)

I learned that I should really have looked at the instructions on the site instead of guessing which things went where.

What's left:

• Glue the digital project and volume jack to the enclosure

• Glue it all together

• Hammer

• Moles

Github Gist: https://gist.github.com/ManuRapaport/2e25f069bf41e3bd573ca328b6c910cf/revisions

I made a clock, complete with the time and date. I learned that I really don't like coding. I encountered many challenges, and I felt unable to fix them on my own.