WEEK 17 - APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

ASSIGNMENT

• Propose a final project that integrates the range of units covered, answering:
  - What will it do?
  - Who's done what beforehand?
  - What materials and components will be required?
  - Where will they come from?
  - How much will it cost?
  - What parts and systems will be made?
  - What processes will be used?
  - What tasks need to be completed?
  - What questions need to be answered?
  - What is the schedule?
  - How will it be evaluated?
  
• Projects can be separate or joint, but need to show individual mastery of the range of skills covered where possible, you should make rather than buy the parts of your project

What will it do?

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My final project is an electric guitar with integrate LED lights which will light up a engraved plexiglass. There will also be a touchpad kill-switch that will turn off the main sound from the guitar and the LED lights when touched.

Who's done what beforehand?

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Many people have made an electric guitar. I have seen a transparent guitar made of plexi or acrylic, but I haven't seen set up like I am designing, with plexiglass set on the top of the body of the guitar and lighten up with RGB LEDs. It's the same idea of a plexi lamp.

What materials and components will be required? Where will they come from? How much will it cost?

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Some of the components come from the Fab Lab Inventory and some were made during the weeks. I got the wood for the neck and body for free and the rest I ordered from Stewmac and Thomann.

Hardware:
- Seymor Duncan SH-b BK/ 78,15 €
- Shaller Non-Tremolo Bridge, Black/ $78,11
- Sperzel Trom-Lok 6-In Line Guitar Machine, Satin Black/ $69,69
- Black Fingerboard Stain/ $4,95
- StewMac Medium Fretwire, Medium, 68-footpack (1 pound)/ $52,24
- Traditional Truss Rod kit/ $10,62
- Strings/ $20

Wood:
- Unslotted Fingerboard for Guitar, Ebony/ $28,93
- Wood, adler for the Body/ Got it for free
- Wood, pine for the neck/ Got it for free

Electronics:
- 1 ATtiny 44 Microcontroller/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $8.12
- 1 ATtiny 45 Microcontroller/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $2
- 1 ATMEGA Microcontroller/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $6
- 1 Resonator/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.2
- FTDI Con Header/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.1
- 5 5V Regulator/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður / $3
- 1 Cer resonator 20.00MHZ/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður / $0.2
- 22 (2x2) connectors/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.2
- 6 (2x3) connectors/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.1
- 12 Capacitor 1uF/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.06
- 18 Resistor 0K/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.03
- 24 Resistor 499ohm/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.08
- 11 Resistor 10K/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.06
- 1 Resistor 1M/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.01
- 1 Resistor 1K/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.01
- 2 Resistor 100K/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ $0.02
- 5 LED/ Fab Lab ornafjörður/ $2
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Other:
- 3D Printed Guitar Pickup Riser/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ Week 4/ $1
- Guitar Strap/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ Week 12/ $25
- Plexiglass, 5 mm/ Fab Lab Hornafjörður/ Final Project/ $40

What parts and systems will be made? What processes will be used?

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I will try to make most of the parts, but I am almost sure that I need to buy the pickup, bridge, strings, truss rod, fret wires, tuners and the jack input. These are all parts that are made of metals so I can't make them. I will make the electronics system and the rest of the components for the guitar, as strap buttons, bone nut, pickup riser, engraved Plexiglas, neck, headstock and the body. Below there is a list of the processes and the weeks I did them.

- Thinking about a final project and make a sketch/ Week 1
- Design the Guitar in Inkscape and then Fusion 360 / Week 2
- Make a FabISP programmer to program my boards/ Week 4
- 3D print the guitar pickup riser/ Week 5
- Making codes in Arduino/ Week 8
- Making a RGB LED board and programming/ Week 10
- Making the guitar strap buttons, molding and casting/ Week 12
- Make a touchpad and connect it with RGB LED board, Input Devices/ Week 13
- Connecting the RGB LED boards and make them talk with each other/ Week 15

What tasks need to be completed?

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- Design a final RGB LED boards; master and slaves
- Program the boards and make them communicate
- Test the sound sensor board
- Test the touchpad function
- Finish the bone, neck and body
- Laser cut the plexiglass
- Make sure everything fits and if the system works correctly
- Document the process

What questions need to be answered?

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- Will the boards affect the sound?
- How will I connect the touchpad to the LED lights?
- How can I make the touchpad turn on and off the sound?
- What will the sound sensor board do?

What is the schedule?

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- May 27 - June 1/ Finish the body, neck and plexiglass
- June 1 - June 13/ Design and make the Master-, LED- and sound sensor board
- June 13 - June 16/ Put everything together and work on the electronic system and program the boards
- June 16 - June 21/ Final Project Presentations
- June 21 - June 27/ Finish Documentation

How will it be evaluated?

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I will have to finish designing the boards and the guitar make the parts for the guitar that are not finished. Also creating codes and program the boards and make them work together.

RELATED LINKS

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Fab Lab Inventory
Stewmac
Thomann
Inkscape
Fusion 360
Arduino
Week 1
Week 4
Week 5
Week 10
Week 12
Week 13
Week 15
Final Project