18 - Applications and Implications, Project Development
Assignment
Plan a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered, answering:
- What will it do?
- Who's done what beforehand?
- What sources will you use?
- What will you design?
- What materials and components will be used?
- Where will 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?
- How will it be evaluated?
Your project should incorporate 2D and 3D design, additive and subtractive fabrication processes, electronics design and production, embedded microcontroller design, 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
What will it do?
It's an interactive bead curtain meant to break hyperfocus. The light patterns become more distressed over time and passing through the curtain settles it back to a calm state.
Who's done what beforehand?
See my final project page.
What sources will you use?
My skills and most of the material comes from the Fab Academy. My LED's I've ordered of AliExpress and the filament used was bought on Bol.com. See the bill of materials on my final project page for the details.
What will you design?
I've designed the beads and the light patterns (with help from ChatGPT and Codex), as well as the top bar that houses all the electronics and holds the strands. I've also designed two PCB's for my electronics.
What materials and components will be used?
See my final project page.
Where will come from?
See my final project page.
How much will they cost?
See my final project page.
What parts and systems will be made?
The beads, the top bar and the PCB's.
What processes will be used?
For the design of the parts I've used CAD through Freecad and Blender and made them using 3D printing and laser cutting. The PCB's where designed in KiCad, milled from FR1 and hand soldered. The code is partially hand written, partially generated with AI, partially taken from the examples by Neil during class.
What questions need to be answered?
How the top-bar is going to hold the weight without bending and where exactly to place the magnetic field sensor.
How will it be evaluated?
I'm happy if it functions as expected, I'm hoping it's also going to be aesthetically pleasing, but it's hard to imagine until it all comes together. If I had extra time I would make an interface and a dashboard, or add more strands, or add more beads, or make it prettier somehow, or more elegant. Maybe someday in the future.
Leftovers previous week
- week 17 documentation
- nueval feedback henk
- nueval feedback take