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Final Bill of Materials
Assembly of a light sensitive automatic opening flower.
Steps Summary
Lasercut poplar wood
Assemple poplar wood to pot
Finish pot with sanding
3D print flower parts
Cut Tyvek to leave shapes
Assemple flower
Put together flower, motor and pot
solder board with parts
programm flower code onto the microcontroller of the board using an ISP
Connect board to servo motor and attach power source
Parts:
Pieces of 5mm poplar wood (I used 600 x 300mm)
3D Printer PLA plastic in green and red
Wood like PLA plastic
Sheet of Tyvek for the leaves
Servo Motor
Board with
Photoresistor
Pin header for servo control
Microcontroller for example ATtiny44
ISP Programmer (I used an Arduino Uno)
Some simple cables
Power Source
Files:
Pot Slices EPS File
Thingiverse Project Page of the files I used for the flower
123D adapted petal Structure Files
Egale Board Files
Arduino Flower Code (For use of Arduino as ISP)
Final Costs are about 50€ for the materials + an ISP Programmer.
What will it do?
My Project will be a mechanical flower which opens and closes it's blossom based upon whether it is dark or bright around the flower.
Who has done what beforehand?
So far only the planning was done by me.
What materials and components will be required?
My Board from Week06
Photoresistor
Servo Motor
Housing
Mechanism to open the flower petals
Wood
3D-Printer PLA
Tyvek
Where will the materials and components come from?
The Materials will be provided by the Fablab Aachen and are already available.
What will the materials and components cost?
The whole project will cost under 50€.
What parts and systems will be made?
The board was already finisched in Week08
Mechanism which converts the rotary movement of the motor to linear movement which opens the flower
Housing which encapsulates the whole mechanism
Flower petals which should look at least a little nice
What processes will be used?
3D-Printing
Lasercutting
Sanding
Electronics Design
Mechanical Design
What tasks need to be completed?
Crafting and designing the housing
Connect all the electronic parts
Connect the mechanical parts
Make it look at least a little pretty
What questions need to be answered?
how to convert the rotary movement of the servo motor to linear movement?
how to open the flower?
how to craft the housing?
how to connect the electronic parts?
What is the schedule?
The project should be finished within the 07.06.2016 and the 17.06.2016.