@flyingfish

its too late in the day for this jusdt work for like 10 hrs today

ykyk

Calender

i spent a lot of time coming up with the genral lay out i am planing to refine it more latter

project page it is not the list page there difrent

i finished up the project page

• list
  • on the left there is a list that will hold all projects i am working on
  • each list item holds 4 things
    • picture/logo
    • title
      * short description of the project
      * button to open a bigger description
• drecription
  • this is a page that you quick ly see and be riminded of what your project does
  • there is a title and picture at the top
  • there is quick links to make feting to certent parts of your project easyer
  • then there is a place where you can list all the featues and constraints you want

font.pointSize: parent.height - 15 > parent.width/ text.length ? parent.width/ text.length : parent.height - 15

this code snipit was something i wrote that makes it so that text auto scales withe the page i just thought it was cool

it works by setting the point size to the height but this would have not worked if the box gets to tall so what i did was to check if the width or height is small then do the smaller one and to check the width i devise the width by the text.lenghth

so i managed to make negative progress

i forgot to save then today has been kinda bad and my code was just really bad so it ended up worst then before

ui is really buggy

so i am using like the really weird color to help me see and design better but in the future i want to make it like slighly transparent gray with neon blue highlights
in like a semi futureistic style

i made the page for the list

• there is a list of projects o the left
  • this list is auto generated
  • it holds the title of your project
  • you can scroll
• right
  • title
  • description
• bugs
  • the scrollview was like really long for sum reason
    * i think it was beclouds i was using a tab bar witch is normal horezontal
    * after trying like every thing i ended up making it not a tab bar
    * i made it a column with with java scrip that checks witch ta is selected
  • for a while all the stuff was layed on ton of one another
    * it made like this weird lump of assests
    * ngl i dont realy know how it fixed it just kinda did at sum point and i am not going to try to mes with it if i dont have to

this is my project manager i have a lot of features i want to add to this but i have never made an actual app before so its a bit of a learning curve

• hack a time split my stuff in to 2 projects and i dont know why but idk i just lost like 1.5 hr
  • i fixed it by making a new project and linking both projects to it
• i made 4 tabs that you can switch between with the tab bar at the top

I AM NOT SUBMITING THIS I MADE IT BY ACIDENT

3d modeling and i hate windows

i have finish all the 3dmodling i need to do for now and am now just waiting foe the pcbs to ship in the mean tim i wall be here https://stardance.hackclub.com/projects/41354

• clips
  • i added clips on the bottom of the outer pieaces they wew to small on the first print so i made them bigger
• poles
  • i did almost a com pleat overhaul on the poles i made them connect stronger by making them go deeper in
• logo
  * i added the loo to everything because it looks cool
• control
  • i add a control panel it is at the base of the main light and just kinda sits there
• idea
  • i have a another idea but i am way to tired to add it rn so i am not adding it till later
  • the idea is to have a light conecten to a pole so i can pull it off to like press it up against things rn i also want to add a uv light to it so i can cure things better

windows is soo slow i am making this because i have been modeling for 10hr and more then 10hr doesn’t log to star dance will make a longer devlog in a bit

alright i got the pcbs 100% done for real this time

• UV
  • i fully implemented the UV lights
• IR
  • i gave the option to attach a it receiver so i can do that in the futor if i want to
• logo
  • i added the updated logo
• silkscreen
  • i went through the silkscreen and fixed all there errors
• check
  • i want through literately every since trace and footprint on these boards to make sure i am actually done designing thease

so turns out i was not done with the pcbs

• i redesigned the logo
  • i gave it this outline and added a gear to the light bulb
• uv
  • i had the idea to add uv light to the light for like idk i will probably never use it but its fun
  • the best use i can think of is curing resen witch is really cool
  • i added them in to the pcb
• redesign
  • so while adding the uv i realized i didnt use the vertion of the foot print ment for hand a soldering so i made sure to fix that

hopfully they are done for real this time

logo

i got everything done to get the pcbs orderd

• Logo
  • i made a logo so i could add it to the silkscreen for some extra style
• mother board
  • the mother board is basically an Arduino what directly plugs in to 36 outputs so it can control all 9 boards
• controll
  • to make the controller i have desided it is going to be comprised of 3 componest the indicator a rotary encoder and a switch
• indicator
  • it is passively a relay small since wrgb controller so i can do a small display type out but
  • it is also nice because i have extra of all the components so this will make them easy to use for other components
• jlc is goofy
  • so if you have sevral break away bords in one they charge you for all of them witch is like a lot and
  • the work around is if you split all of them in to there own file it only cost like $2 per board so instead of paying $20 for for board i paid $8 for the same amount this is what i split everything in to
    • fin_right
    • fin_left
    • indicator
    • mother_board
    • main_light

uh i am so tired

i did like 6hr of work while fighting to stay awake

• split
  • i split the pcb in to 2 100mm sections becouse it is like a lot cheaper. i have no mony
  • to connect between panels i come up with an idea that is rather guineas or it is going to be the biggest mistake in the entire project
    • i put 5 pads on the sides of each board and i am planing to aline the boards then bridge the gap with solder this should electrically connect the 2 boards and hold them together at least a bit
• net
  • i finished the net on the main pcb
  • i finished the not on the fins
• flip
  • just like yesterday i flipped the pcb so that the leds work

data sheet uh

• resistors
  • i moved the resistors like 5mm apart because i have plenty of space and it will be like X400 easier so solder
• i am blind
  • i was testing the led so i can make sure every thing works
  • the led is like really small so i was leaning in so that i can see the pins so i can try and turn it on… so like it is super bright and i burned a little dot in my eye
• data sheet
  • so when i was testing the led i noticed that you need to power it from the left side and i assumed that it was powered from the right side
  • i was curious as to why i got it backwards because i reference the data sheet like all the time. so apparently the schematic counted clockwise. while everything else on the data sheet is counter-clockwise like look at pg 15 and you can see why i assumed the power went from right to left not left to right
  • https://downloads.cree-led.com/files/ds/h/HB-CLW6A-TKW.pdf
• the flip
  • so i needed to flip the entire pcb becouse the power is on the wrong side
  • i would have just rotated it around but scene the resistors are specific to the pins that wouldn’t work and the leds would burn out
  • i also learned that you cant mirror footprints on kicad
  • so what i did was set the center of my pcb to (0,0) then went through and switch the sign on every x value on the pcb

i am making things small

• small
  • i have decided to find some way to fit everything in to 100 mm pieces
  • the old deign would have costed like $30
  • idk why but pcb manufacturers really like 100mm x 100mm and each only cost like 1 dollar

pcb are really time consuming i have found (expetaly if you have never used any kinda pcb editor)

• bigger trace
  • the traces on my pcb before were a bit to small and there was a good chance they would but
  • each light pulls 20mA witch is 0.02A there is 25 lights and each has 4 light in side because RGBW witch means this could potently run at 2 amps and the 0.2 mm traces can only handle like 0.5A(i forgot but it is a smaller number) so i mad most things bigger lets hope it doesn’t explode

pcbs are like really expenceve

so turns out most pcb manufatuers only sell 5 panels at a time so i shrunk my design down to just 2 so i get 10 in total

also all the components arrived from mouser because i assumed it would take waaaay longer for them to ship

i think i got scamed

idk why but like a lot of my time just didnt get logged i am working on it

• fins are done
  • i put the finishing toutches on the fin lights mainly changing out the mosfets and stuff
• net
  • so i had no clue what net is and aparently i was sposed to be lableing what everything is sposed to canect to so it can auto check for shorts so i spent like 2 hrs individualy assining a value to all the pads on the pcb
• panalization
  • i was doing a lot of stuff trying to figure out panzatoin its almost done i think

so i had to go to my grand parents over the week end so i want able to get much work done but i figured out how to use kicad on my laptop

so it was funny in the car while we driving i was working and then kicad crashed before i saved and i had to restart and then after i had done it all a second time i saved and turns out my kicad was out of date so i had to restart

• all i did was sett up the main pcb that has the 25 lights as seen below
  • the zig zag pattern is because all the lights need to be connected in parallel
  • the really weird pattern in the middle right was because the light was too close to the side so i had to move things and that is that only way i could find that things fit
• new mosfets
  • i just changed the mosfets for fun idk