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Art & Design

LED IN 3DDD

My partner and I are ideating about something we could make with a 3D printed design that uses LEDs

1. A message board with light letters!

2. Treehouse with lights

3. Lightswitch glower

4. Light for the 3d printer

5. betters emergency exit signs

6. trash can ring

7. things that hold your charging cord, and light up, when you are changing.

8. a loaf

9. and ideation box that glows when you put your ideas in it!

 

The top four table ideas are:

 1. emergency exit

2. glasses

3. spinning top

4. trash can (trashketball)

 

Other tables top 8:

1. led spinning top

2. led rubiks cube

3. led light switch cover

4. led fan

5. frisbee light

6. bicycle blinker

7. fake ice cube lights

8. clock lights

Art & Design

Arduino Expertuinos

Today we finshed up the circuit videos. We learned about how circuits work. For instance, they must be closed, or create a full, unbroken circuit. If it is not a continuous loop, it wont work. Sometimes you can use switches to control that, which have metal that slides in and out of connection. We also learned how RGB LEDs work. We had some problems making ours work, and that helped us understand it more. Lastly, we learned about resistors. I never would have thought that a simple battery could break a light, but it can. Resisters are used to basically lower the violence of the electricity so the light can handle it.

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Art & Design

Computing About Computers!

Joe and I had a couple ideas before settling on a USB case similar to the heart, person, and tank that already exist. We decided to make ours a computer, because we thought it was funny to plug a computer into a computer. Our designs translated very well into Google SketchUp and the product will hopefully come out well. At first it was very large, so we shrunk it in half and got our final design.