Stuart Turley

Hello Post

I'm very good at sketching out ideas and simplifying them to make them achievable
I would like to manage my time better while working on larger projects
I would like to take better notes to reference back to while working with new software
I would like to communicate with my groupmates better to achieve an end product that is a culmination of the work of everyone in the group and not just one overzealous person (usually me)

Sketch Ideas:

Partner: Nathaly (Other sketches on her page)

Progress on Fusion

First Shaped PCB Project --> Partner: Nathaly

Our goal was to make a miniature solar system (everything within the astroid belt)

I'm happy with how it turned out, I feel like we kept it sijmple but got our idea though.

First Speaker Sketches

Refined Sketches

Final Sketches

Peer Feedback (The stickynotes were too messy and the pisture couldn't capture what they said evry well)

Highlightes:

"I thing the pebbles on top of the Fishtank would be really complex/hard to work with"
"I like teh complexity/themes"
"The sound mich be worse beciuase of the plexiglass inside of the fishtank idea"
"I really likle the trash can idea and thing you should look into that"
(They misspelled my name on this one) "Trash can creative idea."
"I think the fish tank one will be ahrd to complete"
"I like the trash can one and think it's fin and realistic"
"I love the fish tank idea... [a paragraph about sound quality] ... put speakers on top of tank?"
"I really like the trash can idea. I think it is more versitile and has mroe room"
"Both designs are very creative"

80% design progress

I have everything finished except for the containers that will hold the speakers. The dimensions of the speakers have already been accounted for and the rest of the design should fall into place around it. In the design, I additionally plan to put light strips on the inside of the corners that are partially covered by metal corners holding the design together. In order to fufill the microchip requirement, I plan to make the lights change color (probably shades of blue or some other color that will fit the theme) depending on the music's sound.

95% design progress

I have entered the prototyping process and have most of the small details in the design worked out. The mess of stuff on the top view are by cutting curves I am sending to the lazer cutter.

I have worked out the sizing for the speakers inside the boxes. I needed to expand the full speaker design by 15mm to support the thickness of the acryllic boxes around the speakers. I will need to add wire holes in my acryllic boxes to feed wired to the speakers from (note to self for later)

Cardstock Prototype

My design is a Fishtank

I learned that I will need to build ports for charging and an on-off switch

I will need to add some small modifications in the form of lazer-cut lones in my acryllic

Breadboard

Missing Bluetooth Conection

This image does not include the speakers although they can and have been attagtched and worked just fine.

Fuion PCB Design- Partner Oliver

The red overlay of the shaped design is the ground layer we added which supposedly makes the sound better.

Printed Board Before Soldering

AMP PCB Soldered Design

We mostly added visuals to the basic design becuase we need it to be small and effective. We also added a front and back ground layer to maximise quality.

Digital Project Progress Check

So far, the amount of blue LEDs that turn on are dependant on the amount of sound being picked up by the little microphone. The 4 strips will go into each corner of the enclosure

Enclosure Progress Check

I finished cutting the sides of my enclosure.

I have a lurking feeling that I missed something here. How will I get them to stand up and stick together properly?

Enclosure Progress Check

I cut out the wood bottom of the enclosre and the acryllic boxes that the speakers would rest in. Now, the speaker can be assembled at the now partially finished base of the enclosure (spoiler: everything fits)

Now I just need to assemble the corners.

And add bluetooth

And possibly drill a hole for the sound

And shorten all of my wires

And make the sound play (it stopped workign again)

General Progress Check

I dissasembled the battery I've been using becuase it was too big to fit into the intended design. I will use the circuit inside the battery to add an external power switch too. Hopefully, nothing will blow up.

General Progress Check

I have a functioning on/off switch and sound knob. I will probably ass an external charing port at some point. I should have accounted for where the holes for the external componenets would have to go in my original cut. Now I will have to do some less precise cutting to get it to work out.

Note: The speakers stopped working. Broken Chip?

Mini Progress Check

Sound is working again. I replaced the chip. I will cut down the rest of my wires soon to make space for more fish pebbles at the bottom of the tank.

I added the pebbles and glued on the metal strips on the sides. Although it looks like I did a lot of work all at once, this was only around two hours to progress.

Given more time, I would have likes to get my digital project to work (It didn't fit inside of the enclosure)

Final Result

I hung the fish by fishing wire instead of using the mesh I had originally designed for. The sound quality is good but only comes out of the top. Otherwise, it's looking good

Final Reflection

My project is a waterless Fishtank speaker that plays sound from the bottom of the speaker using bluetooth. The most satisfying thing I did this semester was cutting and constructing the enclosure becuase I had designed and planeed everything out in advance but was able to see everything come together and fit with the right sizing as I put the individual pieces together. If I were to start over, I would have accounted for all of the smaller holes I needed to make in the sides of the scryllic before I cut out the original pieces. It was annoying to have to put a lot fo work into getting the new holes in the right spots when I cpuld have done it week searlier all at once.

Something I learned this semester that I will be able to remember in years to come is that wires are wires and pretty much anything can be soldered together. I took many pieces of important thing apart (like my battery) and when I soldered wires where the connections used to be, everything began to work out again.

I was able to finish :)

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