Elissa Caridad

Hello!

Design/engineering strength: I'm good at persisting and being able to push through any issues or difficulties.

Area of Growth: Sometimes I struggle with finding ideas and creative solutions.

I want to commit to:

Having an aesthetically pleasing page
Taking pictures of everything
Making this page a like a diary, showing my progression in this class.

PCB Ideation

Kara and I decided to design an avocado PCB board, where the lights will in the pit, and the battery at the top. We were inspired by the lamp kara made in 9th grade, and thought it would be cool to keep the avocado theme consistent!

Collaborative PCB Design

Kara and I made an avocado shaped PCB board. The lights are in the "pit" of the avocado, and the resistors are around it. This project was a bit of a struggle due to some issues with Fusion, but one thing I will remember from this project is how to think in schematics and how to use Fusion.

Amplifier: 10 Ideas

I really like this bookshelf style one because I think it would be cool to have a little library that also plays music!
I like this crossword style one, maybe I could laser cut some letters our of acrylic and make an actual crossword.
I'm not too sure what I was thinking when I made the monster, but I think it would be really funny.

Amplifier Ideation Feedback

A few people liked my bookshelf idea, but were didn't know if I would have enough materials. A pretty equal amount of people either liked my crossword idea and my monster idea. Artemis made the point that the monster is a little reminiscent of my glowing object, so I may change it to make it more original.

Ideation Phase 2

I think this design will help me grow because I think its more creative than my designs in the past, with the magnetic letter aspect. I am challenging my current skillset by making a speaker! Circuits so far have proved to be a little challenging for me, so I think that making this will be difficult, but I hope I am proud of the product.

Progress Report

So... I am quite a bit unfinished. Life has been a little crazy these past couple weeks, so I haven't been able to focus and haven't found any time to come in and finish things up. I don't have very much cardboard at the moment, but pictured here is what little I have of my Rhino model.

Finished Rhino Model!

Yay we're done! Shown here is my (finished) model of my amplifier. The two main materials will be birch and mahogany for the main body. The letters will be made of acrylic, and I'm still trying to figure out how to join the letters to the speaker, since magnets may mess with the speaker.

Cardboard Model

Here is my amplified (in cardboard form) ! I wasn't able to show pressfit due to time constraints, but thats how I plan to join the wood. Something I learned while making this is that the speakers are pretty close to the edge of the wood, and I'm a little scared the wood may split in the laser cutter. I'm also still figuring out how to join the letters without messing up anything in the speaker. It was really cool to see my idea and be able to hold it!

Breadboarded Amp Circut!

Something about the circuit is that the connections of the left and right speakers are different. When breadboarding, one of speakers was able to play sound but another one wasn't. Turns out the connections for one of them was wrong, so it didn't play sound.

One part that was a mystery to me was the ferrite bead. Turns out, it filters high frequency noise energy over a broad frequency range.

Amp PCB Schematic

My partner for this project was Gabo. Something I learned was about how every piece is connected. It was far easier to see each connection on the board layout then on the breadboard.

Amp PCB Board: Unsoldered circuit board

im going to cry maybe

Finished First PCB Board!

I worked with Kara to create this avocado shaped board. I'm pretty satisfied with the overall product, though I used the wrong resistors for a couple of them and I don't have time to fix it so this will have to do :).

Finished amp circuit

yay! huge props to Mr. Kleindolph for fixing it :)

Enclosure Progress 12/13

Having messed up the wood multiple times, I have decided to just stick to using my MDF prototype.

I still have to do the crossword puzzle outline and my letters, which will probably use velcro.

I have not started at all on the digital project, so I will have to get on that soon!

Amplifier

I made a speaker with an interactive crossword puzzle. I'm happy with getting things done and persisting through the many struggles I've had throughout this semester. One thing I would have done differently is figure out how every component was going to be made during the ideation process because I lost a lot of time doing so. Something that I will take with me is that I am capable of doing stuff like this, I just need to have the right mindset. :)

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