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Art and Design

LED Project Brainstorming

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

  • LED rubix cube
  • LED clock (specific color per hour)
  • Pendant light with LEDs
  • Sunglasses with LEDs
  • Spinning top with LEDs
  • Phone case with LEDs
  • LED rainbow
  • Jellyfish with LEDs (decoration)
  • LED pencil holder
  • LED light switch cover

My top 4 table ideas

  • LED spinning top
  • LED rubix cube
  • LED light switch cover
  • Fan with LED/light-up blades

Everyone’s ideas

  • frisbee light
  • bicycle blinker
  • fake ice cube lights
  • clock face decorations
  • emergency exit sig
  • LED glasses
  • trashketball lights
Art and Design

LED It Up

arduino thing 2           arduino thing 1

Today, during class, we worked with breadboards, arduinos, and LEDs. We started out by connecting batteries to a breadboard (a board of sorts that lets you connect other things to each other. We then used wires to establish connections between the battery and an LED in order to close a circuit and light the LED. We did this is various ways (as you can see above).

Three things I learned:

  • I learned how breadboards worked and how the connections worked as well.
  • I learned that LED lights are very easy to burn out
  • I learned how to connect a battery and a switch into a closed circuit.

 

 

 

Art and Design

3D Sketchup Idea

We started our design process by sketching a basic three compartment pencil holder. We then refined it, and took measurements of the hole that the pencil case needed to fit into, and then began to draw it in sketchup. We sketched out measurements and just slowly drew in the lines. Pencil Holder- 2D graphic