W6 | Electronics Design 💡

GROUP ASSIGMENT

  1. Use the test equipment in your lab to observe the operation of a microcontroller circuit board (as a minimum, you should demonstrate the use of a multimeter and oscilloscope).
  2. Document your work on the group work page and reflect what you learned on your individual page.

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

  • Now, I'll share my individual assignment, where I used an EDA tool to design a development board
  1. Use an EDA tool to design a development board that uses parts from the inventory to interact and communicate with an embedded microcontroller.

1. Use an EDA

DESIGNING MY DEVELOPMENT BOARD

For this week's individual assignment, I took on the challenge of designing and 3D printing an object that would not be easy to make using traditional subtractive methods. After brainstorming ideas, I decided to create a small gyroscope —a fascinating mechanism made up of multiple concentric rings that can rotate freely within each other.


I designed the model in Fusion 360, carefully ensuring that each ring had enough clearance to move smoothly once printed.

This is the sketch in Fusion 360

These are the bodies

What makes this design special is that it is impossible to fabricate as a single piece using subtractive manufacturing. The only way to achieve this conventionality would be by manufacturing the rings separately and then assembling them, which adds complexity and potential inaccuracies.

With 3D printing, however, I was able to produce the entire gyroscope in one go, eliminating the need for assembly.

Printed in the Bambu Lab P1S

The result?
A fully functional, smoothly rotating gyroscope straight off the print bed!