A design/engineering strength I have is I have a good ideation process and I'm able to come up with a lot of ideas and choose which one to go with. I think an area for growth would be my precision, sometimes I find myself prioritizing efficiency over structural support.
Three things I want to commit to in the documentation of my learning and projects:
Clean backgrounds in my photos.
Sufficiently recording what I accomplished on a specific day.
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9/3/2025
My top design is the duck with the flames in the background, we thought the unique shapes would make a cool challenge and it would look really cool if we used a micro controller to make the flames flicker
9/8/2025
A description of what you made
I made a duck with flames behind it with Ashton. Ideally we will program the flames to flicker using the IC.
I will remember from this project the importance of using schematics correctly on fusion 360.
I liked the frog and gentleman speaker designs.
I want to remember from my feedback that I need to account for the thickness of the speaker, and I really liked mr. kleindolph's idea of combining the two speaker designs and making a gentleman frog.
10/11
I like this design because while it's challenging, its also quite cute and I would really love to have it on my desk.
I want to experiment with 3d printing which I've never tried on a techarts project, and I think the unique shapes in the design will be interesting to create.
10/14
My project is a frog with a top hat to control the volume and a mustache to make him look more gentlemanly and posh.
10/18
I'm making a frog speaker with two flowers next to it as speakers. I learned that my flowers do fit into my speaker's screws well and got a good sense of the scale of the build. My design works perfectly and shouldn't need modifications.
10/23
Is there something about the circuit you understand now that you've spent time prototyping it?
I now understand how the integrated circuit works with the electronic components I connect to it and how the quality of the circuit board improves sound quality.
Name one part that is a complete mystery to you. Look it up on Google or Generative AI. What does it say the function of that part is?
The 3.3v Regulator is a complete mystery to me, the first time I built the cuircuit up it got really hot and I wasn't sure why