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Art & Design

Project Ideas with LEDs and 3D Printer

My partner and I came up with some ideas:

  • LED helicopter
  • LED motion sensor
  • Emergency lights- when the lights go off the LEDs turn on
  • pressure pad- LED intensity increases when more people enter the room
  • etch-a-sketch with LED lights and touch
  • LEDs triggered by touch or even noise
  • Light-Up Twister

My Table’s Top 4 Ideas:

1. Supe Cool Light Saber

2. Etch-A-Sketch

3.  Impossible Box (hand comes out and flips the switch)

4. Light- Up Twister

Everybody Else’s Ideas:

1. 3D Printed Jumbo Lantern

2. 3D Printed T-Rex with Light Up Eye

3. Table Catapult (flinging ideas)

4. Small Light-up Christmas tree

5. Light-Up Trashketball Hoop

6. Magical Box

7. Designing a Sign

8. Light Up Bracelet/Jewelry

Art & Design

LED it Up…

Blog about what you learned from LED it Up..

We learned how to make a circuit and connect it. I watched the videos and learned about anode and cathode and the ways that the positive and negative sides affect how you have to hook up the circuit. We also learned how to work with an LED light and make it do different things based on the program. Our groupd was also introduced to RGB LED lights, but I didn’t get to finish much besides watching the video.

 

 

 

 

 

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Art & Design, Uncategorized

Learning Sketchup

Learning how to use the program Sketch Up changed my life. After a few days of tutorials, what used to be a bunch of buttons, turned into doorways for exploration. I had become Dora the Explorer and Sketch Up was my Backpack. I learned how to use the feature guidelines, which turned into the Map, always showing me the way. I discovered the paint bucket tool, adding color into my Sketch Up model just like Boots adds liveliness does to Dora’s adventures. I also used the move tool, taking things from one place to another, just like Dora’s enemy Swiper.

After an adventurous time while using Sketch Up, this is what I came up with:

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