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

For my digital project, I want to program the buttons so I can switch between my spotify API, the weather, and one other page that i'm yet to decide. 

I am going to use the Feather microcontroller and utilize the screen to display my API data. 

The project will be standalone from my speakers, it's simply an addition for convenience.

Nov 18, 2025