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.

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Final Construction of Fixture

After many hours of work and some trial and error, this is the completed fixture (without LEDs and heatsink):


(top view)



Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the bending tool, our group was not able to complete the top of the light fixture. Instead of making a four sided top-portion, the angles we bent the tabs to resulted in a triangle fixture:



As you can see, we ended up having an extra piece left over. Although we were not able to complete the top of the light fixture, it will not have a huge negative impact on the project as a whole: the top portion of the fixture is for mounting purposes and reflection of the LEDs.


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