Author: jaemincho77

Jaemin’s Final Project

From smog hanging over cities to smoke from wildfire, air pollution poses a major threat to our health. Visibility is easily impacted by air pollution. As we have more and more bad air days, we get more of blurry, hazy vision.

Using Visibility as an Indicator for Air Quality

We always use colors to indicate the air quality. In this concept, I added one more visual element—the visibility.

It has 4 layers of mountains which are made of acrylic sheets and 5 row of LED strips which light up the mountains and the wall behind it.

Not just color of the LED but also the number of lit LED strips constantly change, depending on the air quality. For instance, when the air quality is terrible, only the first row of LED turns on in red and all you can see is the silhouette of the first mountain.

Youtube

Instructable

https://www.instructables.com/Mountains-Air-Quality-Visualizer/

Jaemin’s Final Project Progress

  1. Concept
    • Name : Mountains (Air Quality Visualizer)
  2. Form (Rendered)
Material – Acrylic boards and Wooden base

Indirect lighting : Each layer of mountain diffuses light

2. Circuit Design

3. Prototype

4. Google Doc
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jCAZO271qAAaoccYb_rw5IXzavY5Jdoe7J13Hrd9j2I/edit?usp=sharing

(Work in progress)

5. Instructables Account
– https://www.instructables.com/member/JointCompound/

Jaemin’s IoT #2 and Final Project Ideation

IoT Excercise

Final Project Ideation

  • Concept name : Mountains (Air Quality Visualizer)
  • Concept illustration
  • How it works
    • Has 4 LED Strips
    • Integrates with Air Quality Index on IFTTT
    • When air quality is great (Air Quality Index is low), turns all 4 LED strips on
      • When air quality is bad (Air Quality Index is high), turns only 1 LED strips on
  • AQI Reference
PM2.5 AQI vs NAQI

Jaemin’s WALL·E

My halloween costume is Wall·E, my favorite Pixar character.

Costume

Initial Idea Sketch from week 6
Wall·E with blinking eyes (with Blue LED, changed from Red heart emoji)

Process
Head gear
(1) Structure
I cut two blocks of blue foam and sanded those to make the head gear structure.
(2) Eyes
I started to work on the head gear first. For Wall·E’s starry eyes, I 3D printed the lens structure and added two layer of PVC film.
(3) Assembly/Wiring
This was probably the hardest part in this project. Things are about to be put all together and I was afraid to ruin it all. I measured and carefully carved out the blue foam where two LEDs, the circuit and the battery go. Then taped it to put all the pieces together and finally covered the structure with decorative paper.

Cardboard costume
– Compared to the head gear, I enjoyed making the cardboard costume with no pressure, I sprayed the colored paper to the cardboard and added details with sharpie.


List of Material Used
(1) Head gear
– Blue foam
– 3D printed lens structure
– PVC filim
– Decorative color paper
– Duck tape
– Leather lace

(2) Costume
– Cardboard
– Decorative color paper

Circuit Diagram

Arduino code

Wall-E-blinking_codeDownload

Jaemin’s Halloween Progress

  • WALL-E goggle
    • Eyes : 3d printed. I’ll add layers to it to make it look like a camera lens
    • Structure : carved two blue foam blocks. I need to drill holes for the eyes and wiring for circuits
    • Band : need to add stretchy bands for assembly and to wear
  • Circuit
    • NeoPixel : changed to use LED strip (8LEDs) instead of 8X8 matrix
  • Code
    • Blinking blue LEDs : changed to blinking animation effect instead of heart emoji for look more like WALL-E character

Hot air balloon – Jaemin

Key Concept
– Small, cute decorative night light for everyone
– With hanging loop, you can hang everywhere.

Material used
– Mesh fabric (with sparse weaving) for the air balloon
– Velvet (Ivory, Light brown) for the basket and the strap
– Braided leather strip for the power button indicator and the hanging loop
– Two LEDs
– Batter pack with On/Off switch

With hanging loop, you can bring the light wherever you want

Parts detail

One LED facing the front, the other facing the back.

Photos

Process
– Sewing sparse mesh fabric was not easy.
– Including the battery pack as part of design was also challenging.

Ideation/Circuit design

Jaemin’s Plush Night Light Proposal (Updated)

Work in progress

(1) Hot Air Balloon
– Sleep light for everyone

(2) Fluffy Candle
– Sleep light for everyone (maybe with timer)

LED lights flicker like a real candle.

(3) Rocket
– Light-up toy for kids

If you push the button, it shows flame effect several times.
Inspiration – Rocket flame effect

(4) Halo Pillow
– Fun design product for everyone