Week 9

Summary:

• Painted Latex Mask
• Blue Eyes, Hypnotize
• Jaw 3.0
• Machine Sketch
• Audio!
• Movement!
• Everything's falling together!

Howdy!

This past week has been a crazy one. Between creating the final presentation, finalizing Project Mario, or creating the poster for the Freshman Design Competition, each team member has had their hands full with their respective tasks.

First thing first, I'm the realest. Second thing second, Kate painted the latex mask with blue and yellow acrylic paint! It looks amazing. Some of the paint has been rubbed away from all the testing. but that's an easy fix.

With the head finalized, the eyelid mechanism was placed into the mask as well as the new jaw. The jaw had to be printed for a third time because it was still too big. New photoresistors and leds were added to the jaw and implemented.

Pete also finished up the final machine sketches for the head!

The circuit for the audio was wired up correctly and does output ample sound. This sound is, however, very muddled and clouded. Professor Terranova suggested using a resistor in between the ground and input pins of the speaker. This works a little better but still is not as loud as desired. We will continue working on this issue.

Here are a couple sneak peeks for the motion of Mario.

Some final touches will be added this weekend for the in-class presentation on Tuesday as well as the competition on Thursday. Stay tuned for a final update next week!