{"id":163,"date":"2021-08-28T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a21\/?p=163"},"modified":"2021-08-28T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T05:00:07","slug":"slater-campbell-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a21\/scampbell\/slater-campbell-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Slater Campbell – Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Hey! I\u2019m Slater, a junior ECE major from Lincoln, MA. I love building electronics that are both aesthetic and functional, especially display devices and input devices. The design, materials, and manufacturing methods are a big focus for me. Many of my projects already involve light in some way. I’m inspired by retro technology such as Nixie tubes, CRT displays\/vectorscopes, and tactile inputs such as clicky buttons and sturdy dials.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Through various personal projects and school assignments, I’ve gained experience using laser cutters, 3D printers, CAD design and programming, as well as designing and building circuits.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Personal Projects<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Although older, one project I am very proud of is a clock I built with edge lit acrylic panes engraved with numbers. I designed a custom PCB to hold 20 WS2812B leds for each digit, and I made a case using a laser cutter which bends to make an interesting arch. In addition to the clock, I made a single digit version which can show the current weather conditions, by stacking various icons with different colors.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Another project I worked on this summer is a ping pong ball display, featuring a slanted 7×19 grid of LEDs with a ping pong ball on each as a diffuser. This project is still a work in progress, and I have not made holes in all the ping pong balls yet. The frame is made from maple, and building the requisite angles without much woodworking experience was a challenge. Currently, the display is sitting in our common room window in East Hall, displaying “Happy A term!!” on loop. Take a look if you walk by!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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I also worked on a couple projects with Raspberry Pi’s. I was having internet issues where it would go down for short blips, so I built an internet tester that repeatedly pings Google at a fixed interval. I built a housing with a display, which shows the results of each ping as a bar on the bottom, and the number of missed packets in the last 24 hours is shown above. It also stores a CSV with the number of missed packets for each interval.<\/p>\r\n

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Last but not least, I recently built an air quality monitor with a sensor that monitors the CO2 concentration, temperature, and humidity. In the future I will add monitoring of various particles such as PM2.5. The results are automatically graphed in an online Google Sheet.<\/p>\r\n

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I also worked on a handful of other projects, but I don’t feel like they are complete enough to share yet!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey! I\u2019m Slater, a junior ECE major from Lincoln, MA. I love building electronics that are both aesthetic and functional, especially display devices and input devices. The design, materials, and manufacturing methods are a big focus for me. Many of my projects already involve light in some way. I’m inspired by retro technology such as… <\/p>\n

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