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Project Ideas for LEDs and 3D Prints

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

1. Cup with LEDs that turns different colors

2. Plastic “ice cubes” that change colors

3. Frisbee that has an outer edge that changes colors

4. Bicycle lights

5. Water Bottle with LEDs that turn different color

 

The Top Four Table Ideas-

1.  Frisbee

2. Bicycle lights

3. Ice Cubes

4. Clock Face

 

The Top Four Table Ideas #2-

1. LED spinning top

2. LED rubix cube

3. LED light watch color

4.  Fan with LEDs

 

The Top Four Table Ideas #3-

1. Better emergency exit sign

2. Glasses with LEDs

3. LED spinning top

4. Trasket Ball

Art & Design

LED It Up

I learned many things during my experience learning about LED’s, breadboards, circuits, wires, etc. One specific thing that I learned is that wires can be either male, female, or male/female. Each wire has 2 ends, the end either having a piece of wire coming out or having a hole. The female wires have the wholes at the end, while the male wires have extended wire/metal at the end. In addition to learning about male and female wires I learned how to create a circuit/make an LED light up on a breadboard by creating a loop, contained of both positive and negative sides. I learned how to connect one wire to a positive row and another wire to a negative row and create a circuit by connecting the other half of the positive side and the negative side to the breadboard and creating a circuit from there. Lastly, I learned that sometimes there is too much energy going through the circuit and in order to contain the energy one must use a resistor to slow down/ limit the flow of energy.

 Circuit 1 circuit 3

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Tubular desk organizer

 

 

 

pencilCase graphic final

In this assignment, we decided to create a desk organizer/pencil holder. Our first three ideas that we came up with were tubular which was about the size of a cup and had translucent tubes that spiraled around the outside, this would be used to hold pencils. Our second idea was a hedgehog shaped pencil holder. The hedgehog shape would have holes in it that the pencils would be stuck into. Our final idea was a rectangular box that had handles on the side in order to fit into the whole in the table. In the end we decided Tubular was our best option and would function the best. During the process we measured pencils and markers and decided that instead of having pencil sized tubes we would have marker sized tubes so that each tube could fit multiple pencils in each and markers. During the process we also changed the size of the product, instead of having it be a couple of inches wide we decided that 7″ would enable it to be a desk organizer and allow it to hold more things. We also decided that instead of having the tubes spiral around it could hold more if the tubes were straight up. The product turned out very well and I think the changes enabled it to be a better product than first imagined.

Art & Design

Learning SketchUp

During my Art & Design classes so far I have learned a lot about SketchUp. I love SketchUp and it was so much fun to learn new cheats and ways to make my creation better. I have learned how to make a table, how to move my designs, how to rotate my designs, how to add other people’s creation into my work with Windows Components, and so much more. I cannot wait to learn more about SketchUp and continue with my creations and designs. Blog Post House and Table Blog Post House and Table2