Final Project Journal

Project Ideation

1- Tell us about the idea of your project. Why do you care about this? What were you inspired by? Include images and videos of similar projects

My Project Idea is a word Clock which is a clock that represents the time in words , It is a cool project which have a nice look from the outside , There is already a compny that creates the same with expensive price so I decided to do my own .

Project Construction

2- Explain the CAD process of your project. How did you use the software to design your project? (List the softwares/tools/materials...etc that you used)

The Word Clock consists of multiple parts

First Part is the word clock face which has the letters on it .

it is made of Elcryic , I used photoshop to place the letters on the correct places .

For the second part it is made of wood and designed using fusion , it is just a wooden plate to hold the LEDS .

the Space between every LED Is 5 CM and that's also the space on the front panal so every letter has an LED behind it .

I haved tried to put the leds with the wooden plate using fusion but It was pretty hard as fusion was completetly slow , what I was able to do is placing the leds above each other .

3- Explain the fabrication process of your project. How did you use the machine to fabricate your project? (List the softwares/tools/materials...etc that you used)

For Fabricating the Acrylic plate it was tricy

I cut the letters using the Laser cutter
I placed the letters in front of the Acrylic plate in the coorect place and glued them to the front .
I used a black spray to spray the plate , so the plate is black except the letters .
After that I remvoed the acrylic letters so the places under it is not black .
for the wooden plate I have added two layers one as cut and one as engraving , but then I have decided to go with the min feature so only done the cut for the wooden part .

Project Electronics & Power Management

4- Describe your electronic circuit. What are the input and action components? What is the function of each? How do the components integrate together to form your smart system? (List the softwares/tools/components...etc that you used)

I used Arduino IDE to program the arduino

the circuit has only one type of output which is the leds .

so I have connected the leds which make a specific Time words together for example "Ten" ,"Half" , "PAST" , "Five"

every Word is connected to one output of the Arduino pins .

So one pin from the led word ex "Five" is connected to the arduino , all other LEDS pins are connected to 220 ohm resistor to the ground .

For the wiring , I have Connected every led under every letter with the next one so it makes some word for example "IT IS" Needs 4 leds to be connected together , let's assume that these 4 leds are the first one in the diagram 1 so in order to enable them we have to set LOW on pin 3 on the Arduino .

All LEDs for the word clock are connected together to a resistor as described in diagram 1 and all connected to the 5v , the power suplly provides 5v and the resistor is 220 ohm , so the and it is connected in serious , the remaining voltage for the leds is 2 V .

There is also a push button which is nomrally pulled up using SW , and one pin of it connected to the Arduino pin and the other pin connected to the GND .

Diagram 1

5- What is your power source? How did you select the suitable power source for your project? (List the softwares/tools/components...etc that you used)

I have used a 5V Adaptor as the leds needs only 2V , so I have connected a resistor in Series .

I have used a lot of wires so that I connect every word together and connect them all to the Arduino .

All LEDs for the word clock are connected together to a resistor as described in diagram 1 and all connected to 5v , the power suplly provides 5v and the resistor is 220 ohm , so the and it is connected in serious , the remaining voltage for the leds is 2 V .

Diagram 1

Project Programming

6- Describe the code of your project. How did you program each function of the project?

My Code is pretty Simple , It request the time from the arduino using mills() function ,then calcultes a 5 Mins interval , every time 5 mins passed it will increment the 5_Minute_Counter based on that will light specific words in array .

also the 5_Minute_Counter Will increate a one hour counter which will light the hours words , "ONE" , "TWO" , "THREE" and so on .

Project Integration & Testing

7- Demonstrate with text and visuals how did you integrate the project’s modules together? What are the testing results? (Include a Demo video separately, showing a proof of functionality)

The Hardest Part was to connect the leds all together and make a specific words .

After that it was all trail and error way .

20210929_044553.mp4

Sharing & Collaboration

8- Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?

Nada and shimaa had multiple issues in wiring I helped them with that .

Overcoming Challenges

9- When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this project?

The AVO Meter is my friend , Some leds was not working because they got broken so I had to replace them

I tried to use 8 bit shift registers as all the arduino leds was all used , so that way I will use only 3 pins to power 8 outputs , but the shift regster got broken as it doen't support enough current for the leds .

Future Work

10- If you had more time, what is one thing you would change/ Do next in your project?

I would use single addressable LEDS , It would make it easier in wiring .

Final Project Design Files

Arduino Code

F3D Desgin For Wooden Part

rld for the wooden part

Tinker Cad Simulation