Its built!!! Well sort of, again

Good news everyone! I finally got my project built. Its not how I wanted or designed it but it is something. The school ran out of the 1/4" acrylic that I wanted to use so I had to use 1/8" inch thick stuff. Also there was only 1 more pane of it left and it was only a 12" by 12" square. Thus the TA scaled everything down by 50%. So it's tiny hehe.

The original idea was to put led strips on the spokes of the wheel, use a slip ring to allow the led strips to rotate and still have electrical connection, and to make the motor spin at a speed Dependant on the signal the microphone received.  Like I said in the last post I finally got the led strips to work, but I never got the motor code integrated into the system because I spent so much time on the led strips. Always remember to check hardware before software ><.

When I was putting it together the bottom of the wheel touched the ground, so looks like I need make the supports just a bit taller. It all went together well enough and it spins once the supports were on spacers. Oh, the spacers that went on the center axle melted in the laser cutter, the scale was too small for them so I didn't put any on the axle and the wheel sometimes catches.

It was assembled on cardboard using hot glue and the wheels to the cross arms with hot glue. The center axle just has some tape on it to hold it in place and let the wheels spin somewhat freely.

The end caps couldn't be 3D printed as the printer went down for a while and with the scale down of the parts, the original design wouldn't have worked anyway.

There was an expo with all of the projects today at school but since I work when it was starting I didnt go. And I'm uploading all this while at work :).

-Charlie

Can't post pictures while using the mobile app, it crashes. But rest assured they exist and I will upload them when I get home from work at 11:30

 Edit - I figured out how to add the pics, I had to use a browser instead of the app but there they are :)