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Art & Design

Project Ideas for LEDs and 3D Prints

My partners and I are brainstorming about projects we could make with a 3D printed design that uses LEDs:

1. Car with light up wheels

2. Light up phone case

3. Light up sign

4. Spaceship with LED blasters

5. Light up mouse

6. Light up computer skin

7. Light up pencil box

Top 4 Table Ideas:

1. Phone case

2. Computer Skin

3. Car with light up wheels

4. Pencil Box with lights

Top of All Table Ideas:

  1. Led lamp
  2. Jewelry box
  3. Ball that lights up when you throw it
  4. Glasses with lights
  5. Clock
  6. Light up charger
  7. Light up phone case
  8. Computer skin that lights up
  9. light up watch
  10. Toy car with lights

 

Art & Design

LED it Up

Today we learned how to use circuits to light up light bulbs from batteries. I learned how to create a circuit using a 9V battery and a resistor to give a bulb enough power to light but not too much to burn it out. Then we plugged the arduino into our computer and created a circuit with with three bulbs. We used the arduino program to make a sequence of bulbs blink.

arduino pic 1 blink pic 1

 

 

Art & Design

Gripper Holder in Sketchup

The first step in our design process, after we decided that we wanted to make something to hold the gripper, was to make three different sketches. Then we all chose the design we liked best, which was to make something that hooked on top of the whiteboard and held the gripper underneath the claw end. We made it in Sketchup next, using measurements from the whiteboard. gripper holder picture