slide projector (& Carbon arc)
As a project in the first Optics class offered at Baxter Academy, during my junior year, I created a cardboard slide projector & carbon arc together with another student. We worked with a opaque projector lens, and measured focal lengths and determined how much space we would need for a decent projection. Then we created a slide using a film negative. We fabricated a mount for the lens to sit in a sheet of wood. The primary challenge of the project was a light source, which ended up being the carbon arc. To create this, we took two pieces of carbon (sharpened to a point) covered by copper pipes, and ran power across them. A thin strand of nicrhome
Pong in C (with LEDs)For my Intro to Computer Science course during my first year at Baxter Academy, as a final project I had to independently develop a computer code that could give some kind of end result in the C programming language. I decided to do something using an Arduino micro-controller, and after looking at example projects, came away with the idea of developing a Pong-like game using LED lights. As seen in the picture, the final product was an Arduino and LEDs in a straight line with two buttons on either end. The light will travel end to end, and players have to successfully tap their button when it reaches their side to send it back to their opponent. While some flaws exist in the code, and the hardware was not perfect, this project provided me with practice in soldering, working with micro-controllers, and electronics, as well as understand of loops and variables in computer programming.
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LED Bar SliderAs a project for Fabrications I course at Baxter Academy, myself, along with a group of students, decided to step away from what other people in the class were doing and make something unique. We decided to blend the world of fabricating items with electronics and develop an LED Bar Slider. What we developed is a rail system made of metal, with a PVC and metal sliding unit. On that unit is a tube of plastic and light-defusing tracing paper, with LED rope running up it. This rope was a crowd-funded item we found online called BinkyTape, and allows for easy programming of images and patterns. We are in the process of attaching a motor to the sliding unit, to allow for hands free travel across the rails, controlled by an Arduino micro controller. With this, we can have ambient changing lighting, as well as paint pictures through Long Exposure photography techniques.
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