I present Starry Light! This is my take on a large-scale LITE BRITE Board that I used to play with as a kid. The piece is presented as a 2’x3′ acrylic board with a back-lit LED board that comes with assorted colors of pegs! I designed the board to have a photo of “Starry Night”…
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everything working!!!
After I figured out my peg situation I just about worked 24 hours straight on just making pegs. and i had to continue to make adjustments. I ended up cutting the pegs shorter. I originally planned to make 2-3 pegs out of each glue stick but when you think about it, if I did 6…
Failure, Recalibration, & Iteration
I luckily failed early and I am very happy I did, because I needed all the time I could get to assemble my final project. My first “failure” was what I was going to choose as my light pegs. I couldn’t figure out a cost-friendly idea that aligned with my original vision. I went immediately…
Maquette & Shopping List – Lite Brite… or maybe not.
This week I might have hit my “failure” a little early! or really, after gathering my thoughts and putting together a materials list and a plan for how I would actually create my idea, it wasn’t coming together how I imagined. Anyways, I’ll still show what I did. So here is my mini model. It…
Large-scale “LITE BRITE” – Concept Proposal
by Emily Sollecito My biggest idea is to make a large-scale “Lite Brite” board and recreate a famous piece of artwork relating to light. As of right now, I think a spin on “Starry Night” by Van Gogh would be visually most interesting and would have great contrast. I chose this idea because I was…
Emily Sollecito – Introduction and Portfolio
Hi! This is Emily Sollecito. At WPI, I am a double major in Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in my last semester. My campus involvement is mainly in varsity athletics, where I have been the captain of the field hockey team for three years, and am playing in my fifth season. My identity is largely…