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.

• Caption describes what is going on not visible to the reader.

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

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. 

10/18

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

Nov 18, 2025

12/8/2025

The origional idea was to make a duck with fire behind it, and the fire would have programmed lights that flicker as if they are flickering

I worked with Ashton on this project

I'm very proud of how it looks with the skin over the board and how good the lights look (though you can't see them in this photo)

12/10/2025

I soldiered and bolted my speakers into their casing and got them to make sound, I've made the pieces of the circuitboard holder but it has not yet been glued together.

I still need to figure out an arrangement to fit the mess that is my circuitry inside the frog and I need to do my digital project.

12/12/2025

This is my Final soldiered circuit, it sounds pretty decent and im quite proud of hte fact that I was able to integrate my speaker design into it!