Applications and Implications, Project Development
1. Week Assignments
1.1. Applications and Implications
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
1.2. Project development
Prepare drafts of your final project summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~25 MB), put them in your root directory, and check that they are linked in the final presentation schedule.
2. Work!
Well, the assignment is kinda confusing. They seem to be questions already answered in previous weeks, and especially Week 16: System Integration. But here we go…
2.1. Applications and Implications
2.1.1. What will it do?
It's an alarm clock which requires being moved to a different location to be turned off.
2.1.2. Who's done what beforehand?
Plenty? There are a lot of "adversarial" alarm clocks. I did not search the web for any because I wanted by process to be uninfluenced. In cases like this, searching feels like spoiling the fun creation. This idea is simple enough to warrant this.
2.1.3. What sources will you use?
As for resources, I will use all the skills I learned at the Fab Academy. The project itself uses parts from the inventory and an extra DCF77 for time keeping. The product uses electricity and the pulses of DCF77.
2.1.4. What will you design?
I'll design the housing, the display using individual LEDs and the PCBs the run the display, microcontroller, and connectors.
2.1.5. What materials and components will be used?
See Bill of Materials from week 16.
2.1.6. Where will come from?
Mostly from the inventor at the Waag. Some I ordered through Henk, some I ordered myself at AliExpress, Amazon, DigiKey and TinyTronics.
2.1.7. How much will they cost?
See Bill of Materials from week 16.
2.1.8. What parts and systems will be made?
Housing, dock and clock (internals of housing).
2.1.9. What processes will be used?
CNC milling and Laser cutting for housing and dock, PCB milling and soldering for electronics.
2.1.10. What questions need to be answered?
Will the chosen components work together, and will it fit together.
2.1.11. How will it be evaluated?
It's a "masterpiece", so basically it come down to: have a shown what I have learned at the fabacademy.
2.2. Project development
The only concrete part of the assignments are the presentation parts:
And no more "Missing slide" label on the Presentation Schedule.
3. Reflection
I'm too busy for reflection..
4. Source Files
I used the following ffmpeg command to recode the video:
IF=VID_20260523_152620.mp4
OF=presentation.mp4
ffmpeg -i "$IF" \
-c:v libx264 -profile:v high -level 4.1 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset medium -crf 26 \
-c:a aac -b:a 192k \
"$OF"
