Gaby Villalta

Hello post

Designing/engineering strength and areas for growth

I like to think outside the box and take on challenges even if I know it will be difficult, I know it will be worth it in the end. An area of growth would be remembering all the skills and names for making objects in Rhino because I sometimes forget.

Three things I want to commit to in the documentation learning/projects

Organizing my site better since I feel like sometimes it's all over the place, since I sometimes forget to take pictures in class
For projects I want to do more abstract projects as in more shapes in the future not just worldy objects
I also want to do a project that includes some sort of nature like plants,animals, or the ocean

PCB Idea Drawings

So we made six sketches of ideas we might have wanted for our PCB. We ended up deciding on the butterfly. We hadn't seen anybody do it yet and also it was a good option to put a lot of colorful LEDs and make the butterfly essentially pop.

PCB Documentation

This is Lucy and I's Butterfly Board! When deciding on this certain design we both knew we wanted the little details that butterflies have so we decided we wanted our lines to be a certain way even though they were not visible we wanted them in certain places to look more neat. One thing I will remember is the schematic file and having to put the connection through R2 into LED D1 and you have to do that for every router and LED and that the router and LED have to align or it will be very messy and not understandable.

10 Ideas for Speaker

Three designs I chose were the frog with speakers as eyes, the Nemo/clown fish, and the ocean seaweed/coral reef box. So at first, I didn't know what to do until I got to my tenth design. I connected that I could do a clown fish design drawing on the box with seaweed/coral reefs and have one of the speakers as an eye for the clownfish and the top of the speaker could be 3d coral reefs or anemones which are where clownfish live. I could also make one of the coral reefs twist to move the volume from high to low. And for the frog I just really like the idea of speakers eyes and colorful LEDS and I thought it was a cute animal. But I will most likely go with my "under the sea speaker".

Post-it Feedback

When reading the post its I noticed that a lot of people thought that my idea was good but that it might take too long with the time we have. And I totally agree, I will try and work on ways to make my vision a reality without giving myself multiple amounts of work.

Phase 2 drawing of speakers

This is an excellent design to meet my growth skills since I wanted to challenge myself but I also wanted to make a coral reef for a twist for my volume. And I think it could be a possibility to do the 3d. I think I am challenging my current skill set because I have never worked with 3d printing and I also havent painted anything for a D&T project, since I want to draw and paint my fish and the water aswell onto the box, this project will also challenge my patience but I think it will be worth it in the end!

Update on Project for Speaker

I'm currently a bit far behind; I still have to draw the fishes onto my speaker in Rhino and also make certain holes for extra stuff I will need in my speaker. But after that, I will be ready to start my cardboard cut-out. I also decided not to make the speaker the eye of the fish since it just would have been too big, so I that challenge for sure having to figure out what new design I should do with fish but I might do a yin yang type fish around both speakers and hopefully, the drawing works out. I will ask about it in class and try hard to push through so I can start building.

Documentation of Cardboard Prototype:

My idea was an under-the-sea moment with waves and fishes. I want to make some anemones for the speaker's top or buy some for my final speaker. From my prototype, I learned that you have to be patient since my fish engraving took very long. Also, I learned that I probably should have measured before hot gluing because now my speaker front is too far to the left and doesn't look right, in my opinion. So that's one thing I would modify.

AMP Circuit on the breadboard:

So this is a photo of my completed breadboard. I think one thing I understand more is how to read where ground is and where positive is especially on the photo diagrams. One part that was a complete mystery to me was my breaboard would make it weird buzzing sound out of the speakers, but I later found it was my center piece that was the problem. Another thing that was a mystery to me was why postive VIN= postive or like why its called that. On google it said Vin is a amplitude of the inward wave ( energy) but doesnt necessarily tell me why.

AMP design and schematic:

I worked with Avery and one thing I learned was that each wire goes to certain part of the board and if we make a mistake and don't put it in the wrong place then that could cause bigger problems. I also learned that working with a partner can be a good thing, I personally think that me and my partner worked really well and we had good communication which sometimes doesn't happen with all partners.

Unsoldered circuit board

This is my unsoldered circuit board, I have started soldering and Im almost done Im hoping to be done today. And then move on to my on own circuit board Lucy and I made.

First Shaped PCB project

This is Lucy and I's PCB board. We were both thinking about making our PCB a type of animal but we ended up decideing on a butterfly. I am happy with how ethereal our buterfly looks. I like the antennae and how small and petite they look, yet they are very delicate but overall Im very happy with outcome of the project.

AMP CIRCUIT

This is my Amp Circuit my bluetooth now works and my music sounds good. It did take trial and error but it finally worked.

Enclosure Progress

This is how my enclosure is looking so far. Today I glued on all the coral. And paint the fish and sprayed the enclosure. Tomorrow in the afternoon I will glue the front and the bottom and top and screw in muy speaker. I also finished my digital project today and put a picture of clow fish and anemone and then the word ocean see u. And I finished my amplifer about two classes ago.

Final amplifer Documentaion/Finish product of speaker: So I had finished my amp about three classes ago but I finally finished my speaker today. So I made an ocean/ under the sea speaker. I am most satisified with my paint job and the design overall i'm very satisfied but also surpised I made this. The one thing I would do different is go during after school more and not finish on the last day. But still I think it came out really good. I learned how to laser cut which is what I think will stick with me for a couple of years since I had to it for 4 pieces. Overall Im so excited to bring it home when I come back.

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