Monthly Archives: January 2012

Braun Clock GIF

So nice to look at… why?

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Project Hand-in

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The physical model is now complete and ready to hold all components necessary. I added some pulsing LED’s to backlight the meters and demonstrate an effect although it is missing the IR sensor and vibration motors, which will be added for the final show. We were only required to create a block model for our [...]

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It’s Alive!

Testing the servo movement of my model. I will make the shell tomorrow and if I have time may back light the meters. This was supposed to be just an appearance model but I was eager to get it going so I wont feel too bad if all the features cannot be implemented yet. Now comes the [...]

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Chassis Realisation

Got the pieces for the chassis laser cut and part assembled. Despite the no-drilling assembly so far, I still have some fiddly holes to drill with very tight tolerances (can’t believe how small I made this thing!) so although I am excited to see something materialise from a 3D CAD model, I press on with [...]

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