One Engineering Strength I have is my willingness to listen to other peoples advice and feedback.
One Engineering Area of Growth for me is my inexperience with circuitry. I also think that I can struggle with coming up with creative/ambitious enough ideas.
The 3 things I want to focus on this semester:
Improving my knowledge about circuits.
having creative ideas.
Executing my ideas.
We chose to the bear because its a fun animal.
The most valuable input I received was about the low rider. The importance of adding unique elements to the actual low riders was something I had not considered.
I chose to use a different idea for my final drawing. I found myself struggling with adding details to my other ideas so I went this idea. This will help my growth because this idea is more complex than my others ideas, so i'll have to be creative in order to execute my ideas. I'll also have to use a lot of Rhino to finish this design which is something that I haven't done a lot of.
This is the 3dm model I have. I plan to 3d print the body the crane, I want to add a hook that actually attachs itself to the speakers.
My idea: A construction crane speaker
Learned: The crane speaker is too large and that I need to make smaller.
I understand the the positive and negative charges.
I didn't understand what the capacitor did but after looking it up I understand that stores a small amount of energy and releases if there are any breif interruption from the power source.
For the PCB design I learned the importance of an intuitive layout for pathways connecting everything.
Amplifier (Unsoldered) Circuit Board 4/24
Shaped PCB
I worked with Angie on the original design. It's a California Bear. I like how it turned out.
I am fabricating a crate. I haven't support. I need support 3d printing. The crate is be press fit. I have also left an opening of the speaker. This is just one half of the design the other speaker will go into a another box which is why there is a hole. I also need to start actually working on building the enclosure.
My goals for this amplifer were to: make a crate speaker. Have the amplifer work and finish the amplifier. I managed to achieve all these things. I'm most satisfied by finishing this project and be able to use a speaker long term. If I were to start again I would have used my in-class time more effectively. What will stick with me is the knowledge that I can achieve more than I expect even if I think I am not good at it.