Week 9/16 - 9/20

This week, I began working on a custom photo-frame where the frame lights up. I started with sketching out the idea and some of the dimensions (Don't mind the top of the page).

I started making the CAD model of the Frame and the little pieces that go on each corner of the Frame. Those pieces took up most of the first half of the week and the actual model all of Wednesday. The latter half of the week, I spent coding the light functions, which makes the lights change color after a certain amount of time. like every 1 or 2 minutes. That didn't take long because I just reused my code for abandoned Bookcase project that I started last year. The code is basically the same. Soldering all of the LED strips took the most time because I kept miss-tracking the flow of power between them all. The Planning and computer part of the Picture-Frame is basically done, and all that remains is cutting out the prototype, testing, and putting it all together.

(One of the corner pieces)