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Art and Design

Project ideas for 3D LEDs

My partner and I were thinking about ideas for 3D projects with LEDS

1. LEDS on Chargers

2. LEDS on Claw holder

3. LEDS on the rim of a pencil holder

4. Safety Glasses with LEDS and cool 3D printed attachments

5. USB holder with color coded LEDS

6. Top with LEDS

7. PVC holders with Flashing LEDS

 

Top 4 Favorites

1. Emergency Exit

2. Top

3. Safety glasses attachment

4. Trashketball

 

Top 8 ideas from the other 2 tables

LED Spinning top

LED light switch

LED Rubik cube

LED Fan

Frisbee light

Bicycle blinker

Fake ice cube lights

Clock lights

 

Art and Design

LED it up

image1 IMG_0500One thing that i learned today is that switches don’t work unless you use two ports that are right next to each other. The reason for this is because inside of the switch there is a little piece of metal that moves as you flick the switch on and off. This completes the circuit but not on the outside 2 ports. Another thing that I learned is that the color of the wire does not matter with the positive or negative sides it is just preference. Lastly I learned how a switch actually worked as I explained before.

Art and Design

Pencil Abductor 9000 (pencil holder)

What happened at first was that we drew our 3 pictures. When we got the feedback from the other group we decided to combine 2 of our best ideas into one. So, what ended up happening was that we combined a spaceship with a pencil cup holder and added a few more aesthetically pleasing things from the other idea which in turn resulted into the Pencil Abductor 9000.Pencil holder

 

 

 

Art and Design

Learning SketchUp

chair of victory

I learned that it is a whole lot easier to use an external mouse in SketchUp. Also, once you get used to using the rotate tool and how the program works it is really easy to make cool stuff. There are so many different tools in Sketchup it can take a bit of time to get used to but once you do it is really easy to make almost anything you want. There are so many things that you can do with SketchUp and it is really limited to your imagination, and if your good at using it.