We decided to modify our box from being square to being an octagonal prism (go eight sided-things!) with living hinges to make the eight sides. We still used my idea of creating a layer in the middle with holes to hold the batteries.
Here's a picture of the sides of the lantern, designed by Kelsey out of white delrin, photo borrowed from Erin :) We made three opening for the switches (which you can see in the pictures farther below). Note the living hinges and eight sides.
The picture above shows our octagonal prism with the battery layer and batteries inside. Photo also courtesy of Erin.
We discussed what we wanted the top of the lantern to look like. We considered either cutting squares that fit the entire LED or cutting just a hole big enough for the tip of the LED. We found cutting the small holes worked just fine, and produced a nicer glow.
Next we took our double resistors and I soldered them together, which was a lot of fun. Above you can see the three stages of our resistors:
- twist the wires together
- solder the resistors together and cut off one of the wires on each end
- flatten the remaining ends
Later, once we have the body of our lantern constructed and have our LEDs in position, we will trim the length of each resistor.
Next we tested our newly soldered resisters, and the outcome looked bright! (pun very much intended).
Also today in class, Oscar showed us the Lytro!! It was really exciting actually holding one. We experimented with taking a few pictures. The quality isn't great (the example photos on the website were much more impressive than the ones we took (I'm not surprised at all by this)) but it was fun either way!
Oscar also gave us these little kits to make on our own. If you go to the Mad Scientist Hut website, you can see a listing of all the projects you can make with just these few parts.
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