Taran Hano

Hi!

A design/engineering strength:

I find that I pickup skills pretty quickly, or re-learn things quickly.

An area for growth:

I think my main area for growth is finding where in a process I went wrong, and fixing that mistake accordingly.

3 commitments:

Working on my site consistently
Writing concise, informative descriptions
Taking proper photos from many angles

Circuit Board Ideations

Lemon Slice design:

We decided to make a 1/2 lemon slice because we like lemons and we thought it would be neat. We are going to put the LEDs in the seeds.

Project 1 PCB

Schematic

Circuit Board

One or more things you will remember about printed circuit board design:

How to draw circuit boards within EAGLE, not just in Rhino and then exported

Description:

Cole and I designed a lemon slice with the LEDs being the seeds. The details of the lemon slice are silkscreened onto the circuit board. We were helped by Mr. Kleindolph because EAGLE was not working with Rhino.

<-- Final Soldered

Speaker Ideas

Which idea are you most likely to move forward with?

I'm still deciding between old radio and cyclopes-thing

What design concerns do you have?

Amount of materials for the second one and sound quality for the first

Top 3

All designs:

Feedback

<-- warm cool ^

Phase 2 Design

materials: wood, acrylic, single speaker

Speaker Enclosure (so far):

materials: wood, acrylic, single speaker

Concerns: I'm a little concerned about how the acrylic pieces will fit together

Cardboard model

I think what I would want to work on is the bottom. I want to be able to remove it fully to easily access my electronics and I'm not exactly sure of the best way to do that yet.

The curved top is going to be many smaller sections, it's only curved as one large piece because you don't get the depth and silhouette of the shape otherwise.

Amp circuit on breadboard

I really enjoyed this part of the project. Up until the bluetooth section of the breadboard everything was very smooth and worked perfectly. However, in attempts to troubleshoot the bluetooth section I re-soldered the amp component multiple times until it was pointed out to me that my bluetooth chip wasn't connected to ground. Then it worked. Overall I enjoyed doing this and troubleshooting the project, however frustrating it was.

Final Unsoldered PCB

This is my final PCB (before soldering) that I will be using in my amp.

Collaborative Amp PCB

Description: These photos are the schematic and circuit board for our Amp PCBs.

Split work: Together, Kai and I connected the components together on the schematic, each of our contributions went far over the "10" necessary contributions. Then, he tilted the AMP and I rotated the rest of the components to comply with the AMP.

Being that this is your 2nd circuit board, did you learn anything new?

I think the main skill I gained in this circuit board was rotating different components on the board. This wasn't something I've done before, as I assumed it was inefficient and unnecessary. However, to make this specific PCB special, we rotated multiple components.

Final Soldered PCB

This process helped me get better at soldering small components and troubleshooting!

Python Exercise 1: Cole and Taran 1- Analog and Digital Programming Intro Activities - 1

Python Exercise 2: Cole and Taran 2 - Analog and Digital Programming Intro Activities - 2

Our challenge was to break the lights into 3 regions, and have the peaks be red, the mid intensity be blue and the low intensity lights be green. I think we basically acheived this.

Digital project: Coding Challenge

Digital project: Coding Challenge 2

Our challenge was to display information about the weather in San Francisco that wasn't the current temperature.

Digital Project Description

I plan to use the ring of lights, separated from my speaker to just have a fun ring of pretty lights. Very nice to have around. Maybe I will make it fun and exciting in some way but I expect it to just be a ring of light. Probably a pale blue light.

Current State of Speaker

This is the current state of my speaker. To complete it I need to finish gluing the acrylic to the base. Then I need to find a way to temporarily secure the back to the speaker. Then I need to finish my digital project.

Amplifier and Digital Project Final

Amplifier

What did you make?

I made a funky round case for the amplifier!

Thinking about the work you created, what are you most satisfied with this semester?

I think I'm most satisfied with my amp PCB. I enjoyed soldering it and I got a chance to practice my soldering skills.

If you were to start over, knowing what you know, what would you do differently?

I think that I would cut more acrylic rings, I would originally make the platform longer, and I would fashion a way to secure the back before assembling.

What is a lesson from this class that you will take with you and use in future projects?

I learned how to use the laser cutter! Very exciting skill I hope to use in my future.

Digital Project

Link to my Github Gist

Project Goals:

I wanted to create a fun little light. I didn't really have a need for any sort of digital project on my amp and I realized that I didn't really have enough room, so I just had a fun little light separate from my project.

A reflection on what you learned during this process/what challenges you faced

One of the main challenges I faced was having my code be an Atom file and not a Mu Editor file. This was challenging because the circuit refused to take my code. I solved this by getting a new circuit.

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