Hi! Welcome to Week 13

This week's assignment was to propose a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered, answering:
What will it do?
Who's done what beforehand?
What will you design?
What materials and components will be used?
Where will come from?
How much will they cost?
What parts and systems will be made?
What processes will be used?
What questions need to be answered?
How will it be evaluated?

What I Did This Week

This week, I worked on the final project. I had already sketched how I wanted to look as follows:

• What will it do?

The project is going to be an educational tool, used to demonstrate the star constellations for young kids. The user can pick and choose what constellations they would like to view, and the product will light on/off based on the choices.

• Who has done what beforehand?

I looked for previous products that serve the same concept, and I found out about USA Toyz Illuminated Constellation World Globe, which is an educational celestial globe. It shows the constellations but the user has to light them all at once and can’t pick and choose individual constellations.

• What materials and components will be required? How much will it cost?

As someone with little experience in building something this big and detailed, I am still not 100% sure of all the parts I will need, but from what I learned through the past few weeks, I will be needing the following:

PLA Filament	0.07 JD/gram
Swedish Wood (4cm thick)	28 jd
atmega 328p	4 JD
LED	0.1JD*117
Wires	-
LCD	3.5jd
Rotary Encoder	2 jd
Ardiono Nano	4jds
Mosfets	2JD*unit
Pin Headers	-
miscellaneous components	-

• Where will they come from?

Most of these parts and components are available in the lab, few others will be bought from an electronics shop.

• What parts and systems will be made?

- Electronic boards: which will connect between the screen and the encoderm and another one to conterol the lights.
- The Exterior Body.
- Interface screen: where the user will be interacting with the game.

• What processes will be used?

3D Printing
Laser Cutting
Wood CNC
PCB milling
Networking and communication

• What tasks need to be completed?

Honestly? Almost all of them.

• What other questions need to be answered?

Whether the time left will be enough to finish the project! as I have changed my project 3 weeks before the deadline.

• What is the schedule?

With less than a month till my presentation, I’m on a very, VERY, tight schedule. For now, I’ll take every little time I get to design the exterior part as I have learned the skills I need to make it (using the wood CNC and the Laser machines, and 3d printing). For next week, I will take the opportunity to make the boards that will contain the screen and encoder, and I will also start soldering th constellations together as a group and putting them in their place in the globe.

• How will it be evaluated?

My game will be evaluated by the level of engagement and enjoyment of users, and how informative it is for them.