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, May 13, 2013

The Beginning of Prototype Construction and Alteration #1

On Friday, 5/10/13, we started working on building the prototype at the Hess Machine Shop.

First, we sanded all of the sides of the sheet metal pieces to avoid cutting ourselves. Below is a picture of Group Member Chris Fedor sanding down a metal piece:


Although we attempted to bend the metal pieces, we ran into angle issues with the tabs. Due to the limitations of the bending tool at the shop, we will have to bolt the tabs together on the outside of the fixture, as opposed to the inside of the fixture as initially planned. Although the lighting fixture will look different from the original plans, the outside tabs will not affect the results of the LEDs.
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