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Art & Design

Project Ideas with LEDs and 3D Printer

My partner(s) and I have brainstormed these ideas:

  • Jack-o-lantern
  • Charger horse jack-o-lantern
  • a timer
  • operation style game
  • Christmas themed light up sweaters
  • bracelet with LEDs inside
  • high five/fist bump wrist bracelet
  • magical box with lights inside
  • dragon nutcracker

 

Top Four Table Ideas:

1. trash can basketball hoop

2. Jack-o-lantern

3. magical box

4. open or exit sign

 

1. jack-o-lantern

2. t-rex with lighted eyes

3. table catapult

4. christmas tree

 

1. etch-a-sketch

2. twister squares

3. light sabers

4. impossible box

 

Art & Design

Circuit Beginnings

This week in Art & Design, I learned a lot about how circuits work. I learned that is very easy to create a working circuit. For example, we simply put the positive side of a 3V battery on the positive wire of the LED and the negative side of the battery against the negative wire and the circuit was completed, and the LED lit up. I also learned that it is very easy to burn an LED out, especially with a 9V battery, because too much voltage enters the LED, and it overloads its relatively small electric capacity. I also learned the resistors make it possible to prevent this. Resistors take the electricity from the 9V battery, or any other battery, and reduce the charge so things that take a low amount of voltage to run, such as LEDs, will not burn out. Resistors were very helpful when  working with the breadboard.

Here are a couple of my circuits:

circuit circuit 2

Art & Design

Project to Hold the Grabber Tool

Our group, RJ and I, started off with a couple different ideas, some simple and one more complicated than the others. The one we chose was the more complicated one, because we decided it would be fun to challenge ourselves. The idea was to create a way to use the spread of the grabber tips to hold itself. When the trigger is pulled, the tips come in, allowing the grabber tool to squeeze through an opening, but when the trigger is released, the tips catch on the sides of the opening, holding itself. Throughout the design process, we took accurate measurements and made our idea a real thing. We worked together to figure out how to mount the project on the board, and we came up with something that we felt was practical and would easily hold up the grabber tool. We were very proud of our result.

Here is a picture of our design:

board holder

Art & Design

Learning Sketchup

Using Sketchup, I learned that guides can help you size an object and make everything the same size. I also learned that it is really easy to put together final products once you have the original design done, since we were able to just copy and paste. I also learned that you can make any flat surface look like any material, such as fences or leaves. This is my picture of the finished dining room:

dining room