My Final Project
Inspiration
The idea I have for the final project is to make a kind of game for children. A 3D puzzle in which each of the pieces to be used when placed generates a light and a sound or vibration.
Several game modes are intended to be used, but at least one game mode is intended to be inspired by connect 4, where there are two players. Each player would place a piece and it would light up in his color.
Also, since it is a game designed for children, the inspiration comes from a night lamp. So as the main geometry we have thought of a hemispherical lamp with some kind of ornament that can attract the attention of the little ones.
In addition, I want the dome to be a relatively complex geometry, formed by regular polygon patterns. Something similar to a parametric dome that is self-supporting.
Manual sketching
The object shall consist of the following parts:
- 1. Base. In turn formed by two flat round plates between which a door must slide. It wants to be made in laser cut wood and have a pattern that allows the wood to bend and slide around the rounded contour.
- 2. Structure. I want a self-supporting structure inspired by a parametric dome with polyhedron-shaped holes to house the pieces of the puzzle. I intend to manufacture it with polymer fused deposition modeling.
- 3. Puzzle parts. They will have the shape and dimensions to be housed in the structures. When a piece is placed, it must activate light, sound and/or vibration. I want to make them with molding and casting to make them interchangeable as well as translucent with embedded electronics and ornaments.
- 4. Electronics.
License
I decided to give this project an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, allowing anyone to reproduce and adapt my work as long as it is published under the same license and they have no economic purposes.
Bill of materials
The project BOM is added:
- PLA 2kg-> 30$
- Wood (1200x800x3mm board) -> 5$
- Material for casting: mould wax, silicone and epoxy -> 37$
- 11 Microcontrollers ATtiny 1614 -> 11$
- 1 USB Mini -> 2.50&
- 11 Capacitor for 5v -> 1.10$
- 60 Resistors (of different Ω) -> 5.40$
- 6 PCB boards (for machining) -> 6.24$
- 40 LEDs (two different colors) -> 3.60$
- Wires (not all used)-> 10.00$
Files
Here are all the files used in the development of my project:
The dome designed in stl.
The base.
The puzzle parts.
The Slave in KiCad.