Sadly on presentation day we ran into some problems with our project. But here is a video of the tree dancing like it was supposed to. In the background you can hear the music being played and the tree actually moving with the music!

Team Dancing Christmas Tree!

Heres a photo of Team Dancing Christmas Tree (minus Kelly :( because she had to work) at the Design Project expo that took place on Friday, the 13th. Overall it was a great presentation, except for the fact that our Christmas tree didn't like all the commotion going on around it. Our tree was too sensitive to the loudness of the expo and was not working properly. However, we do have a video showing our chrismas tree dancing to Christmas music! This video was shown during our presentation. This project came out geat, except for the sensitivity of our sound sensor (which is a good & bad thing). Great work Team Dancing Tree! 

-DK

O Christmas Tree!

Christmas tree wiring & coding is complete! Decorating is also complete! 

Assembly process

Almost there! Beginning the assembly process. Plenty of super glue, wires, glitter & coffee. Updates to come! 

Basic Motion Assembly in Solid Works

The following animation is the basic design of our Dancing Christmas Tree.  The movement of the Christmas tree will be activated by the sound frequency received from the sound detector piece we received a few weeks ago.  The Tree will rotate, and moved side to side to dance along to the music.  The LED is not included in the Solid Works assembly, but will be placed inside of the hole of the star, and will be lit up as it rotates. 

 

 

The assembly of the Dancing Tree will be completed with in the next two days, seeing as the tree frame has be successfully printed.

 

 

 

New post soon!

First Round of Modifications

For the first modification, we had to drill the hole in the 3D printed star bigger.  The hole in the star was not big enough for the LED to fit into the star.

 

 

The second thing that was done, was to solder the wires onto the LED that will be put into the star. 

 

 

 

This is a picture of the LED soldered onto the wires, and inside of the star.

 





Group Meeting 12/6/13

Group members present: Devon and Rachael

Todays agenda:

1. Inspect Parts
2. Discuss weekend meeting plans
3. Discuss final supply list

1. Our tree base and star have officially been printed. Sadly we did not make the hole for the LED big enough on the star so we will need to go in and solder the hole a little bit bigger. We are still waiting for the actual tree to come back so we can start our assembly.


2. On Sunday Devon and I (Rachael) plan to meet up and work on the project summary and make the video for the part assembly.


3. For the tree we have decided to switch from covering it in felt to covering in garland to give the tree a more realistic look, it also will allow us to more easily get to the parts inside in case anything goes wrong with the LEDs or motors. We also will purchase a small wooden box for the base.