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Art and Design

Project Ideas for LED’s and 3D Prints

My partner and I are ideating about something we could make with a 3D printed design that uses LED’s.

  1. A lightboard.
  2. A push car.
  3. A ping-pong table with LED scoring lights.
  4. Ring you can put around a frisbee so you can throw it at night.
  5. Bike blinker.
  6. Buoy pond decoration.
  7. Clock face with lights.

From the other group:

  1. Cup that turns different color.
  2. Plastic ice cubes.
  3. Light-up frisbee.
  4. Bike lights.
  5. Light-up water bottle.

Top 4:

  1. Frisbee light.
  2. Bike light.
  3. Ice cubes.
  4. Clock face.

Top 4 from other table 1:

  1. LED spinning top.
  2. Rubik’s cube.
  3. Light switch cover.
  4. LED fan.

Top 4 from other table 2:

  1. Better emergency exit sign.
  2. Glasses with LED’s.
  3. LED spinning top.
  4. Ring to go around trash can/trashketball.
Art and Design

LED It Up

During today’s work, I didn’t learn all that much.  It was a good refresher to the world of circuits and Arduino, but nothing new was really introduced except a quad-pronged RGB LED.  I also was reintroduced to switches and was corrected on my use of said switches.  We may have gone slightly overboard by adding 12 LED lights to our breadboard.

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Art and Design

Whiteboard-incorporating Grabber Rack

After looking at three potential designs for an effective grabber rack, we decided on a rack that was composed of two pieces.  The pieces would be attached to the top of the whiteboard and would hang towards the front.  We did encounter a problem when considering how to put the actually grabbing part on the board, but eventually decided that the grabber end could hang off the board.  The two pieces of the rack would the front and back of the grabber’s pole.

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Art and Design

Sketchup Table and Chairs

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During our time using Sketchup, which was mostly a review for me, we created a table and chairs.  The chairs helped me review all the tips and tricks of creating an object to the correct size, and the table helped me review rotation and proper object movement.  I did learn how to assemble a collection of items into a component, but the rest was a nice refresher to the world of Sketchup.