This is the Drexel Engineering 103 blog for group 068-06. The goal of this lab is to create a LED fixture that can be implemented into a dementia ward at St. Francis Country House to help the health of the patients there. We are working with Group 068-05 to achieve this goal of creating a working prototype. Our group is primarily focusing on the manufacturing of the physical light fixture while the other group is working on programming the LEDs to simulate daylight.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Fixture: Altered Design and Cutout

These are the new pieces designed for the fixture. There will be four of each type. Each piece is tabbed to make combining the pieces easier.
The pieces combine at the midpoint as shown. The lower pieces is less wide than the upper piece at the midpoint, because the lower components will fit into the upper components.
The pieces will be cut from two 1/8" thick sheets of aluminum metal. It is 24" x 48". Two of the upper components and four of the lower components fit onto one sheet. There is spare metal from the second sheet which will only have two upper components cut out of it. This metal will be kept as a safety measure in case problems arise in cutting or bending the sheet metal.
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