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Reindeer LED FabLab Project

Weekly reports

29 Apr 2018

First Prototype of the reindeer model ‹ greta

First prototype of the reindeer model After encountering some problems that kept us from finishing our prototype last week, we...

25 Apr 2018

Prototype of the charlieplexing circuit v2 - 12 SMD LEDs ‹ aleks

The next step is to check the SMD LEDs’ multiplexed intensity. Based on our experience from our previous experiment, which...

25 Apr 2018

Prototype of the charlieplexing circuit ‹ lorinc

The LEDs on the reindeer shape are going to be driven by an Arduino Uno board. The course staff suggested...

22 Apr 2018

Simulating the LED patterns with the Godot game engine ‹ aleks

While the 3D prototype was being built and we were waiting for our order to be delivered, we created a...

22 Apr 2018

Problem with the prototype manufacturing and further ideas ‹ julia

Problem with the prototype manufacturing This week we wanted to produce the prototype but a problem occurred so we were...

12 Apr 2018

Design of the 3D model ‹ julia

Our aim was to give our product a reindeer shaped geometry. As we agreed on using wood as the material...

03 Apr 2018

Design and production of the light sensor circuit ‹ lorinc

As a course requirement, we needed to produce a printed circuit board at FabLab. We chose to create something what...

02 Apr 2018

Idea for the first board ‹ aleks

For our first board we were looking for something easy to implement but still connected to our LED reindeer project....

22 Mar 2018

Animal drafts: fish and reindeer ‹ aleks

A spontaneous and simple idea seems to us a fish. The main point was to find something where the moving...

15 Mar 2018

Second draft: rotating globe ‹ aleks

Since we needed a rotating element, the idea came up to use a circular shape instead of a rectangular box....

15 Mar 2018

First draft: blinking lights and furniture ‹ aleks

The given example for FabLab was to build an alarm clock with some additional functions. Our first draft was based...