Week 8 - 4x4x4 LED Cube

This week in Auto CAD we've been proposing ideas for a 4x4x4 LED cube, the main premise behind the cube is have pretty colors. The cube will be able to illuminate some simple shapes and colors. There will most likely be extensive wiring and circuit mapping involved. The base will be designed in Auto CAD and 3-D printed with either a triangle or box design.  

Week7 - Project Designs

Our current project name is soaring eagle, which entails the printing of a 3-D model and circuiting LED's to a board within this 3-D model. We will currently need 3-D printing material, LED lights, a circuit board, and miscellaneous wires for the lights. The things to learn in this project will be the different codes required for the different light patterns within the 3-D shape. The most difficult part will most likely be determining the right thickness of the 3-D printed model, to make shine the light can shine through it. This week I've also learned how to solder efficiently with wires and other electronics. This skill will be important to know so we can wire the LED's properly.

Week 6 - Plasma Cutter

This week in CAD we've been working on plasma cutting metal. The plasma cutter heats up metal up to 25,000 degrees Fahrenheit and cuts the metal straight through. It uses an electrical arch to heat up the metal, and the sheet of metal is grounded with a grounding clamp. Here is an example of plasma cutting a sheet of metal.

 

Week - 5 Knight Rider

This week in AutoCAD we have been working on Arduino LED lights. For the first project we've set up the lights in a lined up fashion in order to replicate the car lights of Kit from Knight Rider. The wiring and coding of the circuit was fairly straight forward, in fact we were able to reduce the number of wires in the circuit by halve. I think we should make an Iron Maiden Eddie (their mascot) that lights up.