Majority of today was spent working on the actual schematics of the project since I was able to finish up working on finding all of the materials. It did take me awhile to find the right software to actually make the schematic before I just gave up and went back to KiCad on my Chromebook (which took a while to download in itself). But aside from that, not too much more progress today aside from the basics of the schematic done.
Spent a whole lot more time hammering down what’s going to be the materials for my project and working that up into a pretty clean BOM. Now, I’ll be moving on to the actual piecing together of everything, making the schematic through online circuit diagram editor to make sure everything works properly.
More of today was spent working on gathering all of my materials again, making sure that I was able to have some type of ground to start working. I did have to spend quite a bit of time trying to again look for the right power source, but was finally able to find one that was available to get locally.
I also spent a good amount of time finding the sensors that I’d want to use, deciding on using both orientation with a 3-axis IMU as well as using sound with one of the Arduino type microphone sensors to be able to make some LED movements reliant on the audio environment as well. The cube will probably be about 10cmx10cm, since the LED screens are about 8mm^2, so the rest of the room will just be a custom 3D printed case to hold all of the electronics inside as well as the LED lights themselves.
Right now, the biggest thing I’m trying to decide between is how I’ll wire all of the pieces together, and I think it’ll be some form of using 18/24 AWG wire to link them all with the power source located outside of the cube since the bank would be way to big to fit inside the cube itself.
Today, I spent most of my time researching the different parts, trying to figure out if this would be a feasible project to work on. I don’t have too much experience with LED strips, but I have enough experience with coding IMUs that I think I could figure out how to connect the two relatively easily. I also spent some time trying to work on the way I would power the cube (since every battery pack for the amount of power I’d need seems to be out of stock), but aside from that the first day went pretty well.
