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Final video.

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Final photo

I really enjoyed this project it was very challenging but very engaging. I’m glade I managed to make a design that is interactive and fun. Iv learnt a lot about electronics and look forward to working with them in the future.

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My two personalitiy traits for this design were fidgety this was showen by bouncing and vibration of the design. The second was calm/relaxed my design is all curves to show how easy going I am.

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First test with everything together.

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Made all my parts and started testing the design without actually putting it all together. This was to make sure everything was working.

I had to go buy more batteries as my first ones ran out from to much testing.

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My idea was starting to come along nicely, but I decided to change the wood to plaster as the was standing out to much

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These are the different iteration of my balls. I went from a ping pong ball to a 3d printed ball with copper wire but realised it wasn’t a good enough connection so I printed off the 3rd and bottom ball which worked that best.

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I then drew up a final plan and hoped it wouldn’t be to heavy to vibrate.

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I struggled a lot with my design as I’ve never worked with electronics before there was a lot of trial and error. Original I wanted to have a wodden body but I quickly realised that a wooden body would have to be very wide to fit all the components in it and still have a stong layer of wood on the outside. I decided to use a piece of pvc pipe as it was very strong and light. This photo is one of the first designs where I was still holding on to the idea of wood.

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Original I was going to have the motor spin a ball using a wheel, but when I did my second experiment I realised that with enough vibration by ball span on it’s own.

After siting back and just thinking about how to make my design more interesting I realised I could make the ball connect the circuit which would start the vibration.

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First plans for my design, I knew I wanted to try and do something different as all the examples I’d had seen were very similar. I was really inspired by a design shown in the lecture where it would only work when it was turned upside down. I wanted my design to be interactive like that

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Time lapse of my digital drawing

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Final Hand in 

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I made a second cast and added bluetack around all the weak points. This worked a lot better but still leaked slowly over time. I had to check on it regularly and seal up and leaks with more bluetack.

Next time I will definitely like to practice mixing the resin more and make a more practical cast.

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I added a resin and left it to dry, however my cast turned out to be not as sealed as I thought it would be.

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I then measured a cast and covered it in vasalean. After a lot of tape and rubber bands I thought I had sealed up my design nicely