Gloria Cebrian

Area of Growth

I think that I want to grow in the coding area of Design & Engineering because I really struggled with that in freshman year and want to learn how it works this year.

Commitments

• Documenting my posts on time or right after I complete an important step in my project so that I don't get confused and forget things.

• Being clear and concise with the information that I'm giving.

• Taking good pictures for all of my posts so that people can see my progress.33434

We made a circuit board in the shape of a toucan. We made the shape of the circuit board in Rhino and exported it to Fusion. Something that I learned about while doing this project is that if something goes wrong in either Rhino or Fusion, it's important to trouble shoot and find the source of the problem before moving on. 

My three favorite ideas are the aquarium, stack of blocks, and the pot. I really like the idea of the aquarium because I think it would be cool to have a see through speaker and be able to see all of the parts. I like the idea of the blocks because I think that it would fit into my room very well and works as a decorative piece as well as a speaker. I like the idea of the planter because I have a lot of plants in my room and it would be cool to have one more that I could also use as a speaker when needed.

The feedback that was the most helpful for me were all the comments that shared which idea they thought was best. I can now gauge which idea would be the easiest and the coolest looking and know how to move forward a little bit more.

I think that this is a good design for me because I don't want to bite off more than I can chew and I think that this is an achievable design for me and I'll be able to perfect it and make sure it looks clean and put together. This is going to be a challenge for me also because I need to figure out how to get the dimensions right and make sure it's able to balance. I'm also going to need to work on my coding skills and making sure my speakers work well.

This is my design for my speaker. I'm going to put the battery in the bottom box and hopefully the design will balance.

This is my alphabet blocks speaker cardboard prototype. The prototype helped me to think about how the speaker is going to balance out and it also made me think about spacing and how much wood I'm going to need.

I worked with Asa to create a customized PCB shape and our idea was for the lights to look like the belly and eye and beak of the toucan. I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out!

I didn't document all of my progress steps, but I struggled originally to place all of the pieces together and decided that I needed to use L Brackets and super glue to make sure the wooden squares were as secure as possible. All I have left to do is glue the magnets to the last piece of wood and then attach the last piece to the rest of the enclosure. 

My goal was to create a working amplifier that is cohesive and has good sound quality and I think I achieved that goal. I created an amplifier in the shape of ABC blocks. I'm really satisfied with my more extended knowledge of circuits and how all of the different elements connect to each other. If I were to start over this project again, I would spend more time building it on Rhino because my measurements for my wood were wrong and so my speaker doesn't fit together as well as it should. In two years, I'm going to remember how to solder well and also how all of the elements of the circuit connect to each other.