DTM Term 4 Week 5

This week I have been frantically trying to fix up and re-order my blog in order to pass. I will be finishing up soldering and finishing my circut later today.

DTM Term 4 Week 4

This week i have been tidying up my blog site, and have added any posts that I have not added, and all I need to do now is finish the circuit and insert it, as well as possibly adding a top to it

Final Box

DTM Term 4 Week 3

I riveted all my sides to my box, and have begun to sand down the sides for a smoother finish. The box is now complete and the next step I have to do is silicon any gaps to make is water resistant, and add the circut and lights onto the box, as well as make and secure a plastic top to the box, which the light is encased in. I am also considering having a 2900 milliamp AA battery to power the circut as this would last much longer than the 700 milliamp one that is in my mockup

DTM Term 4 Week 2

2This week I have had to repair a problem I have only just noticed with the braces that connect the top plate to the four sides. The problem is the the rivets collide with each other, I fixxed this by remaking all the braces and spacing out where I drilled the rivet holes. Also this week I have finished putting most of the parts together such as riveting the last side plate on, and drilling and screwing in the bottom plate. I hope to finish securing and siliconing any gaps next week

Pre-Assembled Box

DTM Term 4 Week 1

For the last two weeks I didn't do much except for sailing to somes island in the first week and also I watched a TV that did not get good reception. I had an average holiday

DTM Term 3 Week 10

This week I have begun on riveting my braces onto the sides of my box so that the walls can be joined on as soon as they have all been joined together. I am doing it in this order as it is more conveinient.

DTM Term 3 Week 9

This week I changed the size of my braces that hold the top panel to the walls to 20mm x 20mm, and I have also drilled out all of the holes to put rivets in. Problems encountered were that my holes were not drilled in the same places on every brace, so I redone every braces again with each of them being identical

DTM Term 3 Week 8

Mock exam week

DTM Term 3 Week 7

This week I cut out quite a lot of braces and also my walls (four triangles) and base of the box. There were 4 braces to connect each of the walls to the base, and 4 braces to hold each wall to each other. There were also 4 braces to hold each wall to the top panel. I have decided to use a substance called polymorph for the roofing of the box

DTM Term 3 Week 6

DTM Term 3 Week 5

DTM Term 3 Week 4

This week I have finished my 2D design of my box which will be cut out on the CAM machine, then bended to form a pyramid shape. I also need to make some braces to hold the bottom lid on. I have also decided to make the box waterproof by filling the side with sillicon.

DTM Term 3 Week 3

This week in DTM I finished my cardboard mockup of my solar light. I made it to 1:1 scale, and changed some measurements from my original design slightly to improve the appearance of the casing, the change was also updated in my freehand design. Also I have completed my evaluation of my prototype.

DTM Term 3 Week 2

DTM Term 3 Week 1

This is the first week back at school in term 3

DTM Term 2 Week 9

DTM Term 2 Week 8

This week I glued my circut into my box and put my leds through the holes, and soldered and glued the solar panel on top of the box, and also glued my battery holder in, I have tested the light and it works perfectly

DTM Term 2 Week 7

This week I finished off my circut by soldering on the leds, solar panel, and battery holder. I now have a working circut and have just put it inside my box but have not yet had time to glue it in place. I encountered some problems such as finding that I had put the rivet holes in too close to each other so had to change them