Blue Tooth Speakers

For my project I wanted to work with speakers, but it seemed to simple and so I thought that it would be really neat to do a wireless speaker system. I always wanted wireless speakers but they wore all really expensive and I did not like how they look. By creating my own wireless speaker…

Erick Project Inspiration

Deciding on my final project was actually very hard, I had no idea where to start. Although I am not a musician by any means, I really enjoy playing some music to relax while I work. The problem that I encounter sometimes was that I had to connect my music devise into something to listen to…

Erick’s Aspiration

In the years that I have been studding Mechanical engineering I have taken very interesting class. I noticed that although I learned the theory of how things should work, I have not learned the practices to the extent that I would like. What do I mean by this? Well looking back in previous classes and…

Erick Pena Skills

I am currently a senior in mechanical engineering graduating this May, and have the similar course background as my team mates.  I have spend a lot of time 3-D printing at the ITLL so the process on how to get your design in 3-D is pretty fresh. I am very good with almost anything that involves hands…

LED Spiders and firefly

Figure 1; Design Process (Created By: Erick Pena, Gardner Nichols, Mathew Tabor) In class two of my teammates and I created an interpretation of the design process as seen in Figure 1.  The process that I followed was very similar to Figure 1 as you can see that the processes is not very linear as…

LED insects and Spiders

I wanted to create something unique for the upcycling assignment. I had a accumulated some electronic components from past classes and also from the ITLL to create what I call LED spiders shown in Figure 1. I really liked to watch and sometimes even capture fireflies because of there very interesting feature that they obtain to…