I'm the Gavin Sibbitt..... I really like making machines and making cookies.
My strengths as an Engineer is my creativity and out-of-pocket thinking. I like to use cheap workarounds that sometimes work.
An area for growth is more realistic designs and a more methodically thought-out design process for me
Here are 3 things that I will commit to in my designs.
Creativity that will blow your mind
A realistic goal for my projects
Passion and focus of my projects
The Final Design The Rhino Design
We choose this design, due Alpaca's being able to spit,
Thefore spiting fire, sounds cool.
3d Pcb board
The PCB Board (routed)
The Schematic for the circuits.
Alpaca Circuit Post: (Lucy and Gavin Project)
The original idea was an the where waldo alpaca with text on the inside of the lama. But the text took to long to load. I'm proud that all the super miniture details, controurts, and the sillouete. looks so nice.
I worked on the sillouette design, and the design of the Alpaca, and the flame in the middle. Lucy worked on the schematic design, where to place the lights on the Alpaca. We made a Where's Waldo Alpaca with fire in it, without the words but that's fine. I will always remember the 3 golden rules of fusion, never upload complicated curves, always rememeber to not export fusion files .dxf, know the exact measurements of your sillouette before you upload,
My favorite designs so far are these
The Traffic Light Monster Box, and the Theta Machine
The spiral hydra and the pumpkin machine.
Puzzle Monster Speaker
A lot of sugestions for more detailed, and mechanically sound designs, and also more monster releated ideas. Many people wanted a spiral hydra idea.
Phase 2 drawings
This is my true backup, that I know will definitely be easy to create
These are some optional designs that I like but the one, I like the most is the shark, but it might be diffcult, so the pumpkin serves a another back up. I might add some lights to the shark teether but we'll see.
This is my Cardboard design, I didn't really take a good picture, their is suppose to be squares, at the back with holes in them indicating the speakers. What I've learned from my prototype, is that I need to cut this model into pieces, in order to have sufficient space to fit the speakers, and that their may be some kinda of echo effect due to enclosed nature, I may have to add gills. Also being able to maintain balence.
So far, I've managed to create space and cut holes, all I need to do left is add the wheel and make the hole for the wheel, in case this is too large for the project, I've created a backup model that is a two headed shark, where I can put in a speaker for each. Figuiring out volume, and manifoldivity was difficult in blender, but I've found add-ons like 3d-printing kit that made my life easier. the dimnsions are currently 306, 325, 402 mm, let me know if it's too large, and I can downsize, and switch to smaller and more complicated double headed shark. My next steps are to add make more gills across the face, and make them open in order to sound to be conducted out of the shark, slightly increase the shark's size, so the speakers may fit with the hole. Cut the thing into pieces.
I've pivoted to a new idea due to size constants, a two headed shark, with each having a speaker in it. Here's the progress so far, and it can fit within the size constraints of the 3d printer. All, I've got left is to hollow out the inside, to make room for my digital parts, and the wheel. Here's a nice picture for ya'll. I have the ability to make space for that room, but my only question is how much space is necessary in measurments of area.
This is my model that can work. It has a printable wheel, a hole that I can attach a wheel through, a hole for a button in order to have an or on button, and a space carved out in order to hold electronics. But something that I want to try do instead of having the button hole, and have a fin that you can slide or press in order to turn on the electornics, but I don't know enough about how 3d printing button componenets work, to know how to implement it, but this would be the last step other than slicing it up. But in case that doesn't work, I have this finnished model with the button hole.
Rendered versoin of my shark.
This is my circuit building process
Circuit 1, I did it in the reverse order on accident.
Circuit 2, I reverse it back and managed to get some decent audio quality.
IMG_1394.mp4Colin and Gavin Circuit (PCB Document), and (Schematic Document)
Documentation: A challenge or two solved with Micro Controller: (Gavin and Gabe)
So far I have all the parts printed and the frame in there. I need to now use the power cord to test out the the audio quality, and then fully add all the speakers after that. And then I need to glue the potentiameter which I can use as a guide to glue the first two lower parts because the potentiameter hole. Then I glue the shark heads and then use velcro or glue to the circuit and the adafruit to the back.
These are my 3d printed parts. The shark has been divided in lower 1, lower 2, upper 3, upper 4. their is a fin that is simply designed to be place, and a fin that slides through. Two halfs of a wheel. A cylinder for rotating, and planes to carry and drill my speakers into. Currently I have two part printed, the fins and the frames printed.
The shark head 1 split into two parts, shark head2 split into 2 parts, ran out of 3d print for turquoise so use white and grey.
Here is the wheel and shaft.
Original Circuit VS. Completed circuit.
Final Shark Pictures
Name: The Shark Wheel.
Description: This is a double headed shark with a speaker within each mouth. Their is a wheel with a shaft that is connected to a potentiamter that adjusts the volume by turning the wheel. In the back, I have japanese wave pattern design, although it's a bit convered by all my circuit parts. I have my power supply, a square hole for my circuit, my digital project, my power jack, the blue tooth. I have a hole so my peakers connect to the circuits. I also have two fins, on is for show the other can be pressed in to turn on and off, but it's not so smooth to press it in.
I'm most satisfied with my circuitry work and my sharkheads, and wheel and fins. if I were to start over, I would make my sharks more hollowed out and bigger so I can fit my circuit and watnot in. I would also make sure that my wires are well soddered before using super glue because their are some pretty ugly lines from tearing apart and regluing. also I would make sure I have enough of the color I wanted, because it looks nicer like that and it causes some fitting issues to have different colors for some reason. I learned the sheer creativity that is possible with 3d modeling and blender, and also the limits of what I can do within such websites. The skills I've learned are what I will keep.
Final Image Post