My partners and I have brainstormed these ideas:
– LEDcopter
– Sensor alarm
– Emergency LED lights
– LED etchasketch
– Noise box
– Entrance counter
– Light twister
– Lightsaber
– Double staff lightsaber
– Box, lights on it
– Futile switch
– Jack o lantern, light in center
– T Rex, light eyes
– Light up trashketball hoop
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Today, I learned about basic circuits, some Arduino programming, and did a little experimenting with LEDs. The most basic circuit I made was taking an LED, and holding it to a watch battery. Positive charge flows in one end, negative charge in another, and the circuit is completed, the LED lights up. We did some more complicated LED lighting with an Arduino and a breadboard. By attaching the LED to a circuit capable of creating new circuits within itself, we got a multi-colored LED to light up different colors in succession.
Ivan and I spent a couple weeks designing a novel USB holder. It is similar to the idea of attaching hooks to a wall, but rather than the hooks being fixed on the wall, they are mounted on top of a rod. From this rod, the hooks can spin. You just yank a USB off, and the wheel rotates to display the next one. Now, this isn’t really an innovation in terms of time, effort or safety. But it’s cool!
Our design is a rotating post, meant to be mounted on the wall. It has four extension, from each of which will hang a USB. It is design to be able to pass on a USB as quickly as possible. When one USB is taken, the motion pushes the next to the front. Designing the item was fairly easy. Illustrating it however, was more difficult than anticipated. Our main difficulty lay in attaching a circular base to a rotating rectangle. In retrospect, it probably would have been a lot easier if we hadn’t tried to get such exact, even measurements.
A surreal dining room done in sketchup.