Week Nineteen

Assignment

Cutting 3 mm plywood and glueing them together rather than using the router was such a great idea, it made me so much easier in the long run adn get the resition.
Having the 3d printed arch with gaps for the 0.8 mm ply wood to slot into worked so so well. This is helping to cover up the joining area between the two parts and I am very pleased with the outcome of them with the plywood placed ontop.
The acrylic tubing has worked very well, it keeps the sound of the cap falling down the game which I really like. It also allows me to add side glow in the centre of the tube to get the neopixel to move down it well so you can see the colours coming out.

curving of the arch - I first tried to curve the arch over screws buy glueing two sheets of 3 mm plywood together and then waiting for it to dry in the shape. This did work but unfortunately it didn't work for the angle I was trying to get to as it went to sharp down and there was a gap.
peg arrangment - changing around the distance between the pegs on the board to see what distance it needed to be from each other. I found out that having them just a few mm larger than the cap works very well. I also had to think about the distance from the back board and the acrylic cover so that the cap wouldn't get stuck when falling down. Again this works best with a few more mm wider than the cap.
joining the frame together - I have tired different ideas to get the main body to come together, with my first idea without having a frame but this looks funny and I then realised the cap could go flying out.
sketch file size - I needed to change the board chip from a ATtiny44 to a ATMEGA 32U4 as the size of the sketch I am wanting to programme with was too large ofr the memory storage on the ATtiny44. This was a hard task but also fun as it made me learn more about chips and other boards.

What to use to glue wood and PLA together?
How to programme the neopixels so they move down the game in specific timing with the cap.

My aim is to get all the making complete by the end of this week (Friday 4th June) so that I can film and get the assignments complete for my tutor to have it signed off.
I also have a trello acount with each day planned out so I have an idea of what I need to complete, it also means I can very easily add items to the list when I think of one and add it to when I think this needs to be completed.

trello

SO SO MUCH!!
I can not believe how much I have learnt over these last 5 months, I had seen an arduino but never used one. I now understand and can use an arduino with more knowledge than I thogut I would have ever!
The machines in our lab are something that I have needed to learn for my job anyway, and having the ability to use these machines whilst having a actual reason to use them has helped a huge amount!
Designing my own website has been amazing, this was one of my favourite parts about this whole course. Having the ability to learn how to do this would never have come up in my day to day life so being able to do this was really interesting.
The laser cutters and 3D printers were the only machines I had used before and very little at that, I'd made a boaty and some dice but now I can use all the machines even learning how to solder. This was something I thought would be very difficult to learn as I wouldn't need to use it for something specific.
This whole course has opened up my brain into showing me what I could do in the future and I can not thank everyone enough who has helped me through it!!