Final Project Week 5

This is our last week working on our Cubby Buddy before the final presentation! And the Cubby Buddy team is working on putting all of the pieces of our project together.

Horray it works! and can support one whole Vivian

Bottom piece:

To maximize space for the children to put shoes in we decided to make the bottom support piece like a bracket shape so it will not interfere with any storage space at all. We also added a piece of delrin to the bottom to decrease the friction between the bottom piece and the ground because delrin has really low friction.















Here is a video of the bottom support in action:

Lights:
For the lights we decided we wanted a bunch of lights lining the the front of a cubby shelf and a light up sign. First we tried to individually light up all of the lights, but that proved impossible because we would have to control each light separately and we do not have enough arduino pins to accomplish that. Instead we figured out how to make a string of lights by soldering a bunch of LEDs to two strings of wire. (In other words we found out how to make homemade Christmas lights!)
Once we made the strings of LEDs we strung them on a part of the cubby and inside the paper sign.

First trial with string of LEDs SUCCESS! 

Button:
Here is the button that we are using to detect whether the Cubby Buddy is in the cubby or not, we placed it in the back of the cubby so when the Cubby Buddy is completely in the cubby it will be pressed. We also had to wire this from the bottom of the cubby all the way to the top of the cubby where the arduino is.

Soldering it all together:
Once we figured out how to wire everything, we soldered everything together and placed it inside a little box that we made (for the aesthetics).

And here is our Cubby Buddy in action!