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Art and Design

Project Ideas for LEDs and 3D Printers

My partner and I are creating ideas about something we could make with a 3D printer design that uses LEDs.

Our Table Ideas:

1. A fan with lit-up blades

2. Infinite mirror

3. Spinning tops with LEDs

4. LED pen

5. LED reading light

6. LED phone case

7. LED USB

Top 4 Table:

1. Spinning Top

2. LED Rubik’s cube

3. Light Switch Cover

4. A fan with LED’s

Top 12 Table:

1. Spinning Top

2. LED Rubik’s cube

3. Light Switch Cover

4. A fan with LED’s

5. LED Frisbee

6. Bike blinker

7. Fake ice cube lights

8. LED clock face

9. Improved emergency lights

10. LED spinning lights

11. LED spinning top

12. Trashket ball

Art and Design

LED It Up

I did not know about resistors before doing this activity, I thought that any battery (one that can be bought at a regular store not some huge car one or something) could power this circuit. I did not know that if the volts were too much it could break the LED. I also learned about the breadboard, which makes it a lot easier to organize wires and make sure they go into the right place. The final thing learned was how the Arduino worked, and how I could program from my computer.

Picture 1: Lighting up the LED with a 9v battery

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Picture 2: Making the LED blink with the Arduino

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The two circuits above show how the breadboard, resistors, and the Arduino can be used together. The first is using resistors to allow the 9v battery to power a LED. The second one is with the Arduino and with  a computer program to make the LED blink at certain rates.

Art and Design

SketchUp Group Project

For our  model to be 3D printed my group chose to do a pencil holder. We each came up with separate ideas, then had another group chose the best one. We ended choosing my idea, which was a pencil holder in the form of a space ship. It worked but have the center hollowed out which was where the pencil cup slid in to. We then created  it in sketch-up on one persons computer, after taking measurements of the cup.

Pencil holder

 

Art and Design

Learning Sketch-Up

I learned a lot about Sketch-Up because I had no previous experience with it, except for about 2 classes in middle school. I learned how create shapes, and use the push to make them 3D. I learned how to use the paint bucket to color my creations, as well as how to use guided lines to make accurate shapes. I also learned how to rotate shapes. I made chairs and a table using my knowledge:

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