The AuroraFan

Week six has passed and we’ve made some great process! We’ve finished setting-up all possible letters and numbers on the display, we’ve developed a marquee for the text, and we’ve created 4 main demos! We’ve still run into a few problems however, mostly due to our limited hardware. Serial is proving to be a bit of a pain to send data over, so we’ve had to take a couple of losses in terms of demos due to this. Image transfer is not possible because too many packets are lost, and checking them would be too slow. However, loading the Arduino...

Week four was Thanksgiving break, but we still managed to get quite a bit done! Right before break started, we went through the painstaking effort of soldering two pairs of three neopixels together. This proved to be quite difficult, due to the pads being horizontal to each other. In the end (and after about two and a half hours of working) we had the two sets finished, and in working condition. Over the break itself we started assembling our cut pieces, and affixing the LEDs to the fan blades. This went smoothly, but when it came to testing, we ran...

Week two has come to a close and we’ve gathered all the components we’ve needed besides the plywood, screws, neopixels, and a couple of loose odds-and-ends. We hope to grab some plywood at The Home Depot next week and finalize a reservation for laser cutting the pieces. Stay tuned for next week, where we should have the pieces cut, and if we’re lucky, we’ll have the neopixels too!