Lauryn Lacap

One strength of mine is my ability to collaborate well with peers. I'm always willing to help my peers if they need help and I hope they will give the same help in return.
An area of growth is just to be more creative with my work. I often find myself looking at other pictures for inspiration on my projects.

Commitments

1) making sure my documentation is organized and easy to follow.

2) having detailed notes/entries.

3) remember to take good photos of my work.

PCB Ideation

Out of our six designs, we planned on doing the hand with the eye that Elisha drew. We choose this design because we both really liked it, and I thought it was interesting as I didn't get to physically see Elisha draw it in class. I thought the sketch was interesting because compared to my designs, mine are more generic, whereas his hand-eye design is self-made; Which is why I think the design is interesting and why I like it more compared to the other sketches.

Collaborative PCB Design

Here, I attached a photo of our schematic and board layout. My partner and I, Elisha created an interesting hand design with 4 lights to represent a sort of eye. We had something different planned before but it was hard to execute so we changed it. Something that I will remember about this project is just simple steps to working Fusion. As in, how to create schematic and where to do so. I had to re-do our schematic board many times by myself so it was complicated. Overall, I hope it turns out well.

10 Sketches

The first one I circled was the washing machine. I really liked it because I wanted to utilize the two speakers and do a washer and dryer which I think will look cool and clean when finished. The second one I circled was the jukebox, I liked this idea because when I was younger I used to have small jukebox karaoke machine so I think it would be cool to remake it as a speaker. The last design I circled was a box with a shooting star design. I liked this design because I thought it was both simple yet cool. I like star designs so I think that's why I'm leaning more towards the star theme.

Feedback

After my presentation, I received a lot of good feedback. I really enjoyed reading the feedback and the main message I received was that a lot of people liked my jukebox idea. Along with liking the jukebox, a couple of people mentioned that they liked the washing machine. I think I'm leaning more toward the jukebox, however, I think doing the washing machine would be a tiny bit easier.

Final Design

For my final design, I picked the washer and dryer, due to time issues. However, I have depicted my final sketch, which contains the overall look of the speaker (the 1st photo), and the inside of the speaker and its aspects (2nd photo). It will use white and pink acrylic and contains two speakers.

Rhino 3d Design

Here is my design of my speaker on Rhino 3d, it was very challenging to make. Overall I think I did well in depicting what the speaker will end up looking like.

Final Cardboard Design Ideation

This is the finished cardboard prototype of my speaker. I made my measurements exact, and I think the speaker looks very similar to the Rhino 3d design. Overall, the only difficult part was making the speaker holes and having to measure the top part of both the washer and dryer.

Finished Breadboard Amplifier Circuit Design

These are photos of the finished amplifier circuit design on my breadboard. I had fun circuiting my breadboard, and it was helpful to have the tutorial. One problem I had was that one of the wires was not grounded properly, so the light did not work. But. after I fixed it, the light and speaker worked perfectly fine. The Bluetooth was easy to add as well. Overall, I though the process of creating this circuit was both very enjoyable and challenging.

Amp PCB & Schematic Design

I worked with Parker to create the PCB board and schematic. While working on this, I learned how to add text on the board; Which was our creative element.

Unfinished Amplifier

I was not able to get a picture of the amplifier before soldering.

PCB Project

I worked with Elisha, and our original project was supposed to be a hand with an eye in the middle of the hand. I am pleased with the finished product. I'm glad I chose the red LED's because it gives it a unique look.

Finished Soldered Amp Circuit

In this photo is my completely soldered amp circuit.

Final Speaker

My goal for my amplifier was to finish it and get the speaker to work. However, something more specific was getting my speaker to actually look like a washing machine and dryer.

For my final speaker, I made a washing machine and a dryer.
I was most satisfied with the fact that I was able to make the speaker work, and I'm glad that I was able to finish both the digital project and the speaker.
If I were to do something differently, I would have made the back piece not split up into 4 pieces. I cut it incorrectly so the one big piece was separated into 4 pieces, however, it was an easy fix.
Something I learned was re-learning how to laser cut since I learned freshman year. In the future maybe if I need to laser-cut something I'll know how.

Final Digital Project

https://gist.github.com/laurynlacap/c6e1affb238cbb649256da9f7863169c

Here is a link to my code for my digital project.
My digital project is related to the temperature of my washer and dryer. When you hold onto to attached part of my microcontroller, the temperature changes based on the heat you produce when holding it.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EsrV3NRjaP9EFnm1g3rqIlO8YbwqgXRf?usp=sharing - here is a link to see videos of my microcontroller.

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