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Week 16 - Applications and implication

Assignments | Week 16 | Applications and Implications

Individual assignment

Propose a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered.

Your project should incorporate:

  • 2D and 3D design
  • Additive and subtractive fabrication processes
  • Electronics design and production
  • Embedded microcontroller interfacing and programming
  • System integration and packaging.

Where possible, you should make rather than buy the parts of your project. Projects can be separate or joint, but need to show individual mastery of the skills, and be independently operable.

See Final Project Requirements for a complete list of requirements you must fulfil.

The answers to the questions below will allow you to create your BOM (Bill Of Materials).

Learning outcomes

  • Define the scope of a project
  • Develop a project plan

My Final Project Masterpiece

I will design in 2D and 3D the packaging of the object, and also the electronic circuit.

I have to achieve 3 parts:

  1. Packaging
  2. PCB
  3. Interface
anecdote about my mind over complicating things

As I have take the thermometer outside, or stick it on the window to get the temperature, I imagined a waterproof and solid packaging for the embedded system that I’m going to create. I only know that PLA and ABS are 3D printing filament that we surely have because I have seen them. But I have no idea about their properties and what will happen if they are exposed to the sun and rain. Summer is coming and I know that I may do test under sunlight. So I would like to make sure the packaging will protect the PCB from hasards and don’t release toxic gaz while exposed to sunlight. This article on Google: https://tractus3d.com/knowledge/learn-3d-printing/filaments-for-outdoor-use/ compared the caracteristics of different type of filament. “PETG and ASA are 3D printing materials for outdoor use and durable (hold over time)”. So normaly PETG and ASA are great materials for my project. But I also have to check if they are in the inventory of our Fablab. Then, I asked my instructor, he said that ABS should be fine.

What will it do?

I decided to build a thermometer that could stick on the window and show the temperature outside.

Who has done what beforehand?

The electronic components

What will you design?

2D and 3D design

  • Sketch : System integration and packaging.

  • Fusion design

Additive and subtractive fabrication processes

  • Packaging

Electronics design and production

  • KICAD

Embedded microcontroller interfacing and programming

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What materials and components will be used? Where will they come from? How much will they cost? What parts and systems will be made? What processes will be used?

What questions need to be answered?

  • The purpose of the project and how does it work?
  • Describe how the components of the PCB are going to work together

How will it be evaluated?

  • The thermometer could be turn ON/OFF.
  • The OLED display should print well the information.

Bill Of Software |ID|Software|Cost|Purpose| |–|–|–|–| |1|Fusion|Free for personnal use or $545/year|For Computer aided Design, 3D Conception|

Bill Of Materials

ID Name Component Manufacturer Quantity Cost Image Datasheet/Documentation
1 XIAO ESP32C3 Microcontroller Seeed Studio 1 $4.99 link -https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/XIAO_ESP32C3_Getting_Started/ - get started with web server:https://how2electronics.com/getting-started-with-seeed-xiao-esp32-c3-board/
2 128*64 LED display module SSD1306 OLED Sreen AdaFruit 1 $10.99 https://datasheethub.com/ssd1306-128x64-mono-0-96-inch-i2c-oled-display/
3 TEMP SENSOR I2C Temperature Sensor MICROCHIP 1 $1.43(link) https://eu.mouser.com/datasheet/2/268/25095A-15487.pdf
4 Buzzer piezo Buzzer Microchip Technology 1 $1.40
5 K3-2380S-E1 SMD Slide Switche Korean Hroparts Elec 1 $0.2196 https://datasheet.lcsc.com/lcsc/2108131730_Korean-Hroparts-Elec-K3-2380S-E1_C145837.pdf

LED and side effect? https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/227977/are-there-side-effects-to-using-too-much-resistance-for-an-led

Super documentation on : Adding battery charger to ESP8266 and ESP32

Well Done Projects on Thermometer: - Babasile Oladele: http://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/kamplintfort/students/babasile-oladele/Assignments/Final.html - Tushar Kukreja: http://fabacademy.org/2019/labs/vigyanashram/students/tushar-kukreja/Final%20Project/Project/ - Interface doc: http://fabacademy.org/2019/labs/echofab/students/francis-lance/week16.html